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Images of the Past New York City History #12

 

 

Picture #67

 
No. 26 Broadway and adjoining buildings extending to Beaver street now being demolished to make way for New Standard Oil Building , 1922.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of Old New York; Edited by Henry Collins Brown, 1923
 

 

Picture #68

 
Old fashioned house at the corner of Perry street and Waverly Place. Erected about 1850 and removed for the extension of Seventh Avenue. Note the grill work around doorway.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of Old New York; Edited by Henry Collins Brown, 1923
 

 

Picture # 69

 

Park Row--Old buildings replaced by the new Park Row Building--1890

 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old  Colony Press
 

 

Picture #70

 

Bleecker Street, No. 309 (formerly 293) the residence of Thomas Paine in his last years: author of "Common Sense."

 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old  Colony Press
 

 

Picture #71

 

Broadway looking North from Pine Street--1867. The proposed underground railway.

 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old  Colony Press
 

 

Picture #72

 
East River shipping, 1874. Looking East along South Street, from South Ferry. Last days of the famous Yankee Clipper Ships.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old  Colony Press
 

 

Picture #73

 
Broadway 1885--the historic old Astor House, built in 1832. The Horse-cars on Broadway had just been installed by Jake Sharp. The Woolworth Tower now occupies the block above.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old  Colony Press

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