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Hide and Leather Building
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100 Gold Street, ca. 1921. When completed in 1920, the Hide and Leather building had the distinction of being the tallest concrete building in the world. Constructed by the Hide and Leather Realty Company, an association of merchants in that trade, the 17-story building was designed by the firm of Starrett & Van Vleck. The firm was best known for designing a series of department stores, including the flagship stores of Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Abraham & Straus, and Alexander's. A mix of offices, showrooms, and lofts the building was demolished in the mid 1960s as part of the Civic Center urban renewal project. It was replaced in 1969 with the nine-story Tishman Downtown Center Building. Though the new building could hardly be called a skyscraper, as its predecessor was when completed in 1920, it is none the less considerable in size, with each floor covering more than an acre and a half.
80 Cliff Street
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Mac Lac Shellac, November 29, 1935. Mac Lac Shellac was an early 20th-century shellac manufacturer that during the 1920s and 1930s (as shellac was utilized on more products) grew through a number of mergers. They had their headquarters at 80 Cliff Street before moving to 127 Maiden Lane. The streets depicted here, Cliff Street from Ferry Street, no longer exist. They were demapped in the 1950s and 1960s for the Brooklyn Bridge-Southwest Urban Renewal. Today the former location of this section of Cliff Street is on the land occupied by the Southbridge Towers.
331 Pearl Street
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331 Pearl Street, ca. 1870. In 1854, Harper & Brothers, the preëminent publishing house of 19th century New York, retained architects James Bogardus, the pioneer of "fire proof" architectural cast iron, and John B. Corlies to design a new building for its offices and printing operation. Facing what was then Franklin Square, the Harper & Brothers building was located where the Manhattan approach to the Brooklyn Bridge lies today. "The Harper Establishment; or, How the Story Books Dre Made," an illustrated guide to the state-of-the-art building and the company's printing processes, was published in 1855 by — who else? — Harper's. Although the historic building was razed in 1925, its legacy lives on: the New York Public Library's DeWitt Wallace periodical reading room includes a 1982 mural by Richard Haas documenting landmarks in the city's publishing history, in which Bogardus's facade is featured.
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Cliff and Beekman Streets
Toned lithograph depicting the original St. George's Church from Beekman Street with three story homes on either side and many people walking along the street. From 1855 D.T. Valentine's Manual captioned "St. George's Church, Beekman St. New York, 1831".
Frankfort Street and Vandewater Street
Colored lithograph of a nearly empty intersection at Vandewater Street and Frankfort Street. Buildings of various sizes line the streets on all sides. A liquor store is at the corner with an open door and a store stating "GROTEN'S // LIQUORS" is above the entrance. A street sign reading "Frankfort St." is on the side of the store. Two women are walking together up the street. A man is standing at the corner near an empty wagon in the street.
331 Pearl Street
71 Cliff Street
Bronze tablet on the Schieren Building, site of the Old Swamp tannery district, corner of Ferry Street and Cliff Street, New York City, undated (ca. 1890-1910).
Cliff and Beekman Streets
View looking northwest along Beekman Street toward the Woolworth Building, New York City, May 8, 1913.
Hide and Leather Building
\[100 Gold Street. Hide and Leather Building.]
Hide and Leather Building
100 Gold Street. Hide and Leather Building
Hide and Leather Building
100 Gold Street and Frankfort Street. Hide and Leather Building, entrance.
Hide and Leather Building
100 Gold Street and Frankfort Street. Hide and Leather Building, hall.
99 Beekman Street
Manhattan: Beekman Street - Pearl Street 99-103 Beekman Street, at, adjoining the S.W. corner of Pearl Street. The view shows the Second and Third Ave., Elevated on Pearl Street. About 1923. Gift of E. M. Jenk.
The Old Beekman
Lower Manhattan: the old Beekman, erected 1827, northeast corner of Beekman Street and Gold Street, 1923.
Fulton and Cliff Streets
Roadway in Fulton Street at Intersection with Cliff Street Facing West: IND Fulton Line Negative documents street conditions on Fulton Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Fulton Line. Shows street with sidewalks, storefronts, pedestrians, and buildings. Original photographic logbook notation reads: View of roadway in Fulton Street, Manhattan, near station 19 and 00 at intersection of Cliff and Fulton Streets, Manhattan. Camera facing west from station 18 and 70 at center of roadway.
55 Fulton Street
South and East Faces of Building at Fulton and Cliff Streets: IND Fulton Line Negative documents building conditions on Cliff and Fulton Streets as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Fulton Line. Shows street with sidewalk, storefronts, apartments, and buildings. Original photographic logbook notation reads: View of south and east faces of building at northwest corner of Cliff and Fulton Streets, Manhattan. Camera facing northwest from station 18 and 65 at 20 feet south of south base line.
57 Fulton Street
\[Sidewalk along Fulton Street: IND Fulton Line] Survey negative documents street and sidewalk conditions along Fulton Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Fulton Line. Shows street with trolley tracks, storefronts, and buildings, stationed at 20+00.
61 Fulton Street
Manhattan: Fulton Street - Cliff Street 61-57 Fulton Street, adjoining and west of the N.W. corner of Cliff Street. June 22, 1934. P. L. Sperr.
80 Cliff Street
Changing New York; Cliff and Ferry Streets Looking along Cliff Street with 111 John Street, 116 John Street, and 60 Wall Tower in the distance.
Gold and Beekman Streets
Gold & Beekman Streets southwest corner (buildings demolished)
Southbridge Towers
Manhattan: Brooklyn and the Lower East Side showing the approach for the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal from the southwest, undated.
Southbridge Towers
Manhattan: Brooklyn Bridge, undated. W.F. Powers & Co. building visible.
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