Excerpt from The Architect and Engineer of California, Vol. 32: February, 1913 Very often we see buildings, some of them in very good state of conserva tion and with a pleasing architectural design being torn down to be replaced by taller structures, with the sole object of better utilizing the earning power of the land they are on. One of the most peculiar characteristics of the development of New York city is the periodical shifting of established trade centers and the creation of new ones. In the lower part of the city we can read its commercial history from the various structural features of its buildings and quite often in the rec ords of the Buildings Department we find that alterations were made to build ings at various times to accommodate them to the different uses to which they had to be put in conformity with the trend of trade and to meet the prevailing demand. A large number of buildings, now used for office purpose were given over to the manufacturing or storage of various goods and materials and there fore they have the extra-strong floors, thick walls and wide foundations origin ally required for a safe distribution of the loads of heavy machinery or stored materials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.