The marine view from the lawn of the Museum of the City of New York.
 

THE IMARINE PANORAMA FROM THE

lilUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

When Archibald Gracie built his fine residence, that is
now the home of the Museum of the City of New York,
his view of its marine environment was purely idyllic.
The wooded shores of Long Island and upper Manhattan,
the meadows and fields of the islands of the East River,
were charming rural settings for the rapidly flowing
estuary joining Long Island Sound with New York Bay.

Up and down the stream moved the wind-propelled
ships and barges of a day before Robert Fulton had
joined Jamie Watts' teapot to a paddlewheel. How often
must Mr. Gracie have sat on his broad veranda and
watched the not too stately ships go by—for the treacher-

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