OF OLD NEW YORK

of the Federation of Women's Clubs of New York and
New Jersey in so greatly assisting in the preservation of
the Eighth Wonder of the World.

OLD DOORWAYS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE

[The following extracts are reprinted by the kind per¬
mission of the New York "Evening Post," from a series
of entertaining articles on the subject by Mr. Charles
McDonald Puckette. The illustrations are from original
photographs loaned by Mr. George B. Ritter and made by
himself during his weekly rambles in these interesting old
localities of the city ten years or more ago.

Unfortunately, the insatiable scrap heap has already
claimed a goodly number of the places shown in the pic¬
tures, and we are greatly indebted to Mr. Ritter for hav¬
ing preserved for future generations a veritable mine of
treasurers in the exhaustive collection he has made of
these quaint nooks and corners, and we hope to be able
to show more of them in another issue of the Manual.

Many of our readers will undoubtedly be glad to visit
some of these neighborhoods where Old New York still
exists in fact.]

The real entrances to old New York—this might well
be the title to these notes of walks in Greenwich Village,
of afternoons spent in looking for the doorways of gen¬
erations past which still grace the fronts of many houses
there. For in all the city there is no suggestion of older
days offering so inviting a prospect for the imagination
and the eyes to dwell upon as these doorways of a once
aristocratic district.

Routes might be suggested, but they shall not be, be-

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