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NEW YORK (CITY) 377 Houston, running through to Mott street. It is built of white marble, and is 70 ft. wide by 187 deep, and five stories high. The " Tombs " or city prison, constructed of gran- ite in the Egyptian style, occupies the block bounded by Centre, Elm, Franklin, and Leon- ard streets, and is 200 by 253 ft. In front are police court rooms. In the area within Interior of Grand Central Depot. executions take place. The Grand Central depot, in 42d street, between 4th and Madison avenues, is built of brick, stone, and iron, and cost nearly $2,250,000. It is 240 ft. on 42d street by 692 ft. toward Madison ave- nue, and is surmounted by several Louvre domes. It covers 66 city lots, and, besides containing waiting and baggage rooms and offices, admits 150 cars. It is the largest and finest de- pot in the country, and is used by most passenger trains of the New York Cen- tral and Hudson Eiver railroad, and by the New York and Harlem and tbe New York and New Haven railroads. The freight depot of the Hudson Kiver railroad, constructed of brick, granite, and iron, and three stories high, occu- pies the entire square (formerly St. John's park) bounded by Hudson, Beach, Varick, and Laight streets. On the Hudson street front is a bronze statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, sur- rounded by emblematic designs, also in bronze. Odd Fellows' hall, on the corner of Grand and Centre streets, is a large, substantially built, brown-stone building, surmounted by a dome. It contains a series of highly ornamented lodge rooms, richly furnished, and in different styles of architecture, Egyptian, Gre- cian, Elizabethan, &c. The masonic temple, of granite, five stories high, on the corner of 23d street and 6th avenue, is 100 by 140 ft., with a dome 50 ft. square rising 155 ft. above the pavement. The grand lodge hall, 84 by 90 ft. and 30 ft. high, will seat 1,200 per- sons. The oldest church edifice, until it was Masonic Temple. torn down in 1875, was the North Dutch, in "William street, between Fulton and Ann, erected in 1769. Trinity, in Broadway oppo- site Wall street, is in the Gothic style, built