Strip away Battery Park City on the left, the new World Trade Center and the other modern buildings on the right and you get the maritime version of the Lower West Side. New York. 1912.
In this era, hundreds of piers lined the Hudson River.
Many of the boats carried trans-shipped goods from the
massive Central Railroad of NJ and Lehigh RR train yards in Jersey City on the other side of the Hudson.
Thousands of deals were made and money exchanged here every day by the drivers of early motorized trucks and owners of horse-cars, which transported whatever they purchased to warehouses and retail stores in Manhattan.
Strip away Battery Park City on the left, the new World Trade Center and the other modern buildings on the right and you get the maritime version of the Lower West Side. New York. 1912.
In this era, hundreds of piers lined the Hudson River.
Many of the boats carried trans-shipped goods from the
massive Central Railroad of NJ and Lehigh RR train yards in Jersey City on the other side of the Hudson.
Thousands of deals were made and money exchanged here every day by the drivers of early motorized trucks and owners of horse-cars, which transported whatever they purchased to warehouses and retail stores in Manhattan.