New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Teresa Carpenter
Archive for February, 2012
Broad Street looking toward Wall Street, Manhattan. July 16, 1936
NYPL Notes: Buildings lining Broad Street, including [S]chwartz’s restaurant, left foreground, and a building with scaffolding. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Grand Opera House, northwest corner, West 23rd Street and Eighth. August 12, 1936
NYPL Notes: Looking up over entrance of opera house, statues representing drama and music, bas-reliefs of Shakespeare and another; sculpture on roofline. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
