Gradual Decline (1913-1940)
As new bridges and new subways took the pressure off the Brooklyn Bridge services, ridership at Park Row gradually declined.
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“Through dinner she felt a gradual icy coldness stealing through her like novocaine. She had made up her mind. It seemed as if she had set the photograph of herself in her own place, forever frozen into a single gesture.”
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“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”
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