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Originally powder storage building for Naval ships build in the old Brooklyn Naval yard. Most Famous BB- 39. Than the powder was moved to NJ in 1890, building than became a coffee storage facility
464 Greenwich Street was built in 1892 by builder Hugh Getty for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale coffee and tea merchant. The building was employed as a roasting plant by a variety of coffee companies including the Turkish & Arabian Coffee Company, whose signage remains on the facade.
Now a 29 million loft...
How these classic painted buildings adds from the 30s still are legible, but they are dwindling. NYC in the days of sea travels was a bustling point of entry for products across the globe. These few ads are the remnants of the days of sea travel.
Katz's Deli - A kosher-style delicatessen originally opened in 1903, than re-located to current location in 1911 due to construction of the Subway line. Katz's Deli, one of the last remaining taste of the past of days when Pastrami ruled NYC, Pizza may be king, but Kazt's ruled the late night eats scene, and still does.
Pub’s story is intertwined with New York City’s history. It has been part of the fabric of the Financial District community since prior to the prohibition
Once during the day when steam ships ruled this area was mainly a variety of shipped services, warehouses and maritime services; now at some places you can't even afford a steak. Ohh how the times have changed. But if you look; the past is still visible. To keep the charm the beautifully granite street slabs are still set.
New York's Malaise Era in all its glory. You never knew what was coming up in the next block. Walk fast, keep your head up and never make eye contact.
Staple Street Skybridge, Built in 1906 a historic cast-iron skybridge that connects two former hospital buildings over the narrow, cobblestoned Staple Street. This NYC iconic Structures was built to connect laundry services and NYC hospital facilities.
I was trying to create a 1970s faded look with those funky storefront colors and patterns.Hope it worked.
Interesting fact on Mulberry St in Little Italy.
Mulberry Bend,formed by Mulberry Street on the east and Orange Street on the west,was historically part of the core of the infamous Five Points;the southwest corner of Mulberry Bend formed part of the Five Points intersection for which the neighborhood was named. Aside from Mulberry,the other four streets forming Five Points were Anthony Street (now Worth Street),Cross Street (now Mosco Street),Orange Street (Baxter Street),and Little Water Street (which no longer exists)-Wikipedia
This is exactly how I want to remember the Twin Towers, not the horror of deliberate Islamic terrorism and destruction on September 11, 2001. The anniversary of that is coming up this Sunday. Please say a prayer for those who perished by smoke inhalation, burning alive or jumping as a desperate way of escape. (and all this for just showing up at work that day). Also remember the first responders who selflessly dug into the incredibly dangerous toxic "pile" when looking for survivors, which there were none of.
Gantries were built in 192⁸0s to load and unload rail car floats that served industries on Long Island. The gantries with car float transfer bridges, which in turn were served by barges that carried freight railcars between Queens and Manhattan. In the hight of industry in NYC there were hundreds of Gantries all along the water ways to move commerce. So few are left from the days of Trains.
Curious how things have changed over the decades from when this Kodachrome slide was taken? Here's the same view today...
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Note the complete lack of any "glass and steel" skyscrapers which now fill almost the entire Manhattan skyline.
One of NYC oldest subway stations Chambers St Station, below NYC Municipal Bldg, renamed David Dinkins Municipal Bldg.
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall and Chambers Street station was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), and was an express station on the city's first subway line. The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway
But the one thing missing, the crowds. Thank goodness for Sunday, freeparking, and no crowds.
"The Eye of the Moment photos by Nolan H. Rhodes" nrhodesphotos@yahoo.com www.flickr.com/photos/the_eye_of_the_moment
Pershing Square, Park Ave viaduct, and my pride PanAm Bldg (Metlife); as a born NYer and X blue ball engineer with PanAm this building always had meaning to me.
Story has it that Juan Trippe wanted 8 signs 2 each side of the bldg to taunt Howard Hughes than owner of TWA whom had its corporate office in the Chrysler Bldg, and Hughes office facing west in the buildings lcrown. As well as Eastern Airlines who's corporate office was at 2 Rockefeller Center (which lobby is still a amazing sight to see)
Three titans of the heyday of Aviation now just memories.
Color brings these old black and white photos back to life. It's almost like actually being there and shooting with one of the early color films.
A friend sent me a very low resolution copy of this image and asked if I could upload it to Flickr. After a lot of playing with Photoshop, this is the net result. I didn't shoot the photo, but sure wish I had!
That's 26th Street slicing horizontally through the foreground. The trees at the edge of Worth Square are visible at bottom right. A monument honoring General William Jenkins Worth was built there in 1857.
Empire Stores - built in the 1860-70 as a storage warehouse for coffee industry pioneer Arbuckle Bros. Originally used to warehouse raw materials such as coffee beans, animal hides, raw sugar and molasses that were brought in on ships from Africa, Cuba and South America,
It's a mute testimony to the prosperous commercial activity of Brooklyn during the second half of the 19th century.
Needless to say, I didn't take this photo. It was emailed to me by a friend who asked me to share it on Flickr.
Brick, mortar and steel. Not a single glass tower in view. No TV tower on top of the Empire State Building, either.
Finally got that time machine working correctly! More vintage New York COLOR photos to come from my adventures into the past.
Imagine some of the other things not visible... the sounds of footsteps on the littered sidewalk, the metallic scent of the subway below and its vintage trains illuminated by warm yellow incandescent bulbs. The noises and exhaust smell produced by the engines of 1920s and 30s automobiles as well as their high-pitched horns as they rattled along the dark city streets....
My dad took my sister and I up to the top of the Empire State Building that afternoon. Compared to today, it's amazing how much smog hovered over the city compared to now. A view captured with my Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 on 110-size Kodak Kodacolor film.
I also have dad's 16mm Kodachrome home movies from our visit to the "top of the city" that very same evening. It confirms the orange skies and levels of smog. Those sure were different times!
The view from the top of the Empire State building has always been breathtaking and still is. (It's quite different now from this photo taken on Kodachrome film 46 years ago!)
I found this print in my Dad's collection. It's possible that this was an official Port Authority image taken from one their helicopters. My father worked for the PA up on the 58th floor of the North Tower and used to come home with all sorts of promotional material.
==> For those browsers which support Flickr Notes, I've added them to this view with links to other photos providing a close-up look.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, vast swaths of New York
had a STRONG resemblance to what Detroit has become now.
Here's a quote from a great book about 1960s and 70s New York called "The Ungovernable City" by Vincent J Cannato...
"Stabbings, robberies, muggings, graffiti, arson and rape began to strike a wider and wider portion of the population. Burglaries made people feel vulnerable, even in their once-safe homes and apartments. It wasn't just the reality of crime and sense of broadening disorder that hurt. It was the raw fear and perception of vulnerability that seeped into every interaction of daily life...."
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Here is how the Manhattan side entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge looked in around 1998.
Shot with Kodak Ektar Professional 25 Film.
Taken near West 20th Street where Chelsea Piers exists today on the left of the image.
Believe it or not, this is what the entrance ramps were like when the highway was built in the 1920s. By the 1970s, they were ridiculously obsolete.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, vast swaths of New York
had a strong resemblance to what Detroit has become now.
Here's a quote from a great book about 1960s and '70s New York called "The Ungovernable City" by Vincent J Cannato...
"Stabbings, robberies, muggings, graffiti, arson and rape began to strike a wider and wider portion of the population. Burglaries made people feel vulnerable, even in their once-safe homes and apartments. It wasn't just the reality of crime and sense of broadening disorder that hurt. It was the raw fear and perception of vulnerability that seeped into every interaction of daily life...."