balanced cantilever structure with a marked angular appearance, lacks the
graceful continuity and flow of line of the East River suspension bridges.
It was designed by the municipal department of bridges and completed in
1909 at a cost of about $20,800,000, including land and construction. The
bridge crosses Welfare Island (reached by elevators descending from the
bridge's roadway) to Long Island City. About 7,450 feet long (including
approaches), it has a west channel span of 1,182 feet, a Welfare Island
span of 630 feet, and an east channel span of 984 feet.

The New York Cancer Institute of Welfare Island (see page 423)
maintains a clinic at 124 East Fifty-ninth Street.

Murray Hill

Area: 27th St. on the south to 42d St. on the north; from 6th Ave. east to 3d Ave.
(excluding 5th Ave.). Map on page 193.

The district known as Murray Hill, now bordered by many of the
world's tallest buildings, recalls to the sentimental New Yorker a vision
of baroque brownstone mansions, crinoline and lavender, hoop skirts and
trailing gowns, hansom cabs and four-in-hands. In the last decades of the
nineteenth century Murray Hill harbored the ample dwellings of many of
New York's "Four Hundred." A few of these remain and reinforce the
contrast between the leisurely magnificence of Victorian days and the
dynamic austerity of twentieth-century New York—a contrast which, as
time passes, will be found chiefly in old prints or such novels as those of
Edith Wharton, who so scrupulously evoked the flavor of Murray Hill's
opulent past.

At the southern edge of this locality stands the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Transfiguration, 1 East Twenty-ninth Street, better
known as the "Little Church Around the Corner." More marriage cere-
monies are performed here, perhaps, than in any other church in the city.
The edifice gained its more popular name in 1870 when the pastor of a
fashionable Madison Avenue congregation refused burial services to
George Holland, an actor, and suggested to Joseph Jefferson, a friend of
the deceased, that he "try the little church around the corner." The ensuing
publicity made the church a shrine for theater people. The Episcopal
Actors Guild of America, of which Otis Skinner is head, has head-
quarters in the church building.

The grouping of small stone buildings around a garden dominated by
a magnificent English elm is exceedingly picturesque, and without doubt