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3T6 NEW YORK (CITY) above the sidewalk. The walls are of Massa- chusetts white marble; the beams, staircases, &c., are of iron ; while black walnut and choice shf New Post Office. Georgia pine are employed in finishing the interior. The halls are covered with marble tiling. The main entrance on Chambers street is reached by a flight of 30 broad steps, which are orna- mented with marble col- umns. E. of the court house, in the N. E. corner of the park, are two substantial brown-stone buildings, the larger occupied by courts and offices, and the smaller as an engine and court house. S. of these, E. of the city hall, is the hall of records, a massive stone edifice, once a prison, but now occupied by the registry of deeds. The old post office building (for- merly the Middle Dutch church) is in Nassau street. The new building for the post office and United States courts occupies the S. extremity of the City Hall park. It is of Doric and renaissance archi- tecture, with several Louvre domes, and has a front of 279 ft. toward the park and of 144 ft. toward the south, with two equal facades of 262 ft. on Broadway and Park row. The walls are of Dix island granite, four stories high, besides the Man- sard roof. Its cost is between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. The sub-trea- sury, formerly the custom house, occupies the site of the old Federal hall on the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, and ex- tends through to Pine street. It is of white marble, entirely fire-pro of, 200 ft. by 90, and 80 ft. high, with Doric porticoes of eight columns on Wall and Pine streets, and a granite roof. The rotun- da is 60 ft. in diameter, and the dome is support- ed by 16 Corinthian col- umns. Its cost was $1,175,000. The custom house, formerly the mer- chants' exchange, also in Wall street, on the cor- ner of William street, is 200 by about 160 ft., and 77 ft. high. It is of Quin- cy granite, with a portico having 12 front, 4 mid- dle, and 2 rear columns, each of granite, 38 ft. high and 4^ ft. in diameter. The rotunda is 80 ft. high, and the dome is supported on eight pilasters of fine Italian variegated marble. The cost of the building and ground was $1,800,000. It is in- adequate and inconvenient for its present use, Custom House. and the erection of a new custom house has been strongly urged. The police headquarters is in Mulberry street, between Bleecker and