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Images of the Past New York City History #4
 
 

 

Picture #18
 

The Apthorpe Mansion, Bloomingdale
 
Picture Credit: The Greatest Street In The World  The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany by Stephen Jenkins, G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York (1911)
 

 

Picture #19
 

Havemeyer Mansion in 1861, between 58th and 59th streets and eighth and ninth avenues.
 
Picture Credit: The Greatest Street In The World  The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany by Stephen Jenkins, G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York (1911)
 

 

Picture #20
 
Chambers Street, 1872__Completion of the A.T. Stewart building. For many years a small saloon broke the continuity of the front, the owner declinging to sell at any price. At his death, Stewart was then able to complete his structure.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918, edited by Henry Collins Brown.
 

 

Picture #21
 

Looking South on Broadway and Fifth Avenue from Twenty-fourth Street, 1889. Fifth Avenue Hotel on the right.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918, edited by Henry Collins Brown.
 

 

Picture #22
 
Lafayette Place. The original LaGrange Terrace. The most fashionable of all old New York residences, afterwards known as the Colonnade Hotel.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918, edited by Henry Collins Brown.
 

 

Picture #23
 
Broadway, at Rector Street, about 1880. The old Empire Building, in which Russell Sage had his office, and which also housed the Union Trust Company and others.
 
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918, edited by Henry Collins Brown.
 
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