Major Points of Interest

New York Aquarium

Battery Park. IRT Broadway-7th Ave. subway (local) to South Ferry; or IRT Lex-
ington Ave. subway to Bowling Green; or 9th Ave. el to Battery Place; or
2d or 3d Ave. el to South Ferry; or Broadway bus to South Ferry. Hours: daily
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from April to Sept., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Oct. to March. Admis-
sion free.

The New York Aquarium is set in the marine atmosphere of Battery
Park. Housed in a circular three-story building, a converted fort, in the
northwest section of the park, it is second in size among the world's forty
or more great public aquaria, but first in variety and number of specimens.
In the thirty-six years ending December, 1938, more than seventy-six
million visitors passed under the two gilded figures of sea horses carved
above the main doorway. The average attendance is about seven thousand
a day. On certain days, however, when the fleet has been anchored in the
harbor, sailors on shore leave have brought the daily attendance to more
than fifty thousand.

According to a recent census the exhibition comprises some 8,877
fishes, 872 invertebrates, 198 reptiles, 65 amphibians, and 12 birds. The