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Excerpt from How Do You Like New York? An Informal Guide
Oh, let's begin here! Surely this is the very heart of New York, cried my brother.
We stood on Fifth Avenue at the entrance to Rocke feller Center, midway between 49th and soth Streets. To north and south of us stretched the Avenue, its soaring buildings forming the banks of a ceaseless river of traffic. The sun from a morning sky of clear blue struck ?ashes from passing motors, from the windows of shops and the burnished roofs of houses. A great department store rose across the street, and in its shadow, dwarfed almost to the size of a village church, lay, quiet and gray, St. Patrick's Cathedral. We stood for a minute longer look ing at it all, and found ourselves breathing quickly with excitement and exhilaration.
This was our first day in New York, a day we had prepared for and looked forward to for many months. Scarcely yet did it seem real.
We turned back to Rockefeller Center. Before us lay the entrance way, ?anked left and right by the French and the British Empire Buildings. Not very tall these two, built of luminous cream-colored stone like all the rest, they house shops and offices of French and British activities. Beyond them a balustraded terrace extends from street to street. Stairs go down to a sunken plaza.
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