magic manhattan like a cluster of sin fired mountain peaks it's manmade mansions of industry rise out of the bay from the battery to the prom it's brightly lighted avenues are a byword it's waterfront afraid from here on this golden island is the greatest honor a kaleidoscope of all those who were down to the sea in ships and no less than ten thousand fifty here come into new york harbor from voyages of the seventy to r and more than two hundred thousand persons are employed daily to handle the traffic of the harbor the tug approximately seven hundred a number are an institution under themselves appearing like puny little water bugs hitting at br has bought a doll and carriage up on that and all their young lady how are you today all right madeleine good she and her little brother were both born on this particular bar and it's the only playground they know fulton fish market of which this is but one here is the largest wholesale fish market in the world each year it handles approximately five hundred million pounds of seafood of more than one hundred different variet there's a famous brooklyn bridge for more than half a century it has proudly spend the broad east river and watch the ever growing skyscrapers first of new york's great bridges it has fourteen thousand miles  in the less repellent little days are occasionally to be found somewhat more pretentious improvised living quarters need homes built on deserted barges lifted above the mire and murky water with clean window curtains and front porches that look manhattan is a city of bridges the over water roadways that connect the metropolis with surrounding points total more than twice the entire length of the island some are mechanical swinging all if thing while others span the sky well above the tallest smokestack message this is one of the less lofty spans of the great triborough bridge a mere segment that straddles the harlem river high enough for tugs and other small craft to go underneath also capable of lifting like an elevator to permit the here is one of the automobile approaches on the same harlem river crossing of the triborough bridge the newest of all those serving manhattan it is seventeen and a half miles in length and its three arms extend to the boroughs of queens and the bronx there are also fourteen miles of highway approaches and the concrete alone that were used in the construction of the bridge proper would pave appalling highway from new we off to philadelphia the most imposing part of this great engineering achievement is the suspension pot over the east river at hellgate near the point where it spreads out into long island sound the spanish sufficiently high to permit all vessels to pass underneath the on can be seen the famous hell gate bridge used exclusively for railway traffic this gives a better idea of the great length of hell gate bridge looking to our the main span from a point approximately in the middle of the entire structure probably the most imposing of all manhattan's bridges is the george washington across the expensive and historic hudson it's many traffic arches curving a prism silver framework things of beauty its towers rise twice the height of any of the other bridges and this massive structure of steel and concrete reaches gracefully almost three quarters of a mile in a single span skirting a goodly part of the western shore line of the island is famous riverside drive which looks out across well hidden away tracks under the hudson where the battleships of many navies have anchored on parade and where now and then even today an occasional antiquated square regular can be seen tied to a industries of manhattan's magic waterfront on many sided and never ending the falling shadows of evening bring no silencing to its towering skeletons of steel and fast dropping and rising clamshell bucket unloading barges  sight one may best avoid nature has indeed been kind to the little island on which the american metropolis is due but were it not for the development of maritime transportation which has made it a mecca of ships and merchants of the  its great harbor might be only a vacant it spans of inland waters at the edge of the mighty atlantic no age no century in history no place on any continent as known such amongst this melting pot of human and