Seamen's Institute, Coenties Slip and South Street,
This lighthouse tower is a memorial to the passengers,
officers and crew of the steamship Titanic who died as heroes
when that vessel sank after collision with an ice-berg. Lat.
41^46' north; Ion. 50° 14' west. April 15, 1912. Erected by
public subscription.
 

The City's Office Building

The Municipal Building, the grandest and highest
municipal building in the world, covers three irregular
city blocks. It is occupied exclusively by the employees
of the city, who number over 7,500—quite a town by
itself. The building has 26 stories, rising to a height
of 330 feet above the street, surmounted by a tower 210
feet high, and holding eight stories. The total height
from the Subway arcade to the top of the 24-foot fiigure
on the tower is 560 feet. The principal front, facing
Centre Street, is 448 feet long, the rear on Park Row is
361 feet, the Duane Street side is 339 feet and the Tryon
Row side, facing the south, is 71 feet long. The foun¬
dation is 130 feet below the street level and 90 feet below
water level. The cost of the building is about $10,-
000,000. The Mayor's office and the chambers of the
Board of Aldermen, and offices required by close sub¬
ordinates of the Mayor and Aldermen and the Police,
Fire and Dock Departments are still continued in the
City Hall.

Under the Municipal Building is the most important
passenger transportation point in the city. Here con¬
verge the subways of the east and west sides of Man¬
hattan, the Fourth Avenue to Brooklyn and Coney Is¬
land, and the Elevated under the East River to East
New York, Cypress Hills and Jamaica. When the en¬
tire system of subways is completed it will be possible
to take a train here and go to any part of the Metropolis.
 

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