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42nd Street and Broadway
42nd Street and Broadway
Street Scenes - 1898. W. 42nd St. No. Side - W. from Broadway.
Buildings which are covered in large posters advertising shows and products. A street cleaner with a wheeled trash bin is bending down to clean up the street corner. There is pedestrian traffic, as well as carriages and wagons drawn by horses and a streetcar.
IMAGE DATE1898
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New YorkNicknamed "The Deuce," West 42nd Street between Sixth and Eighth Avenues was once one of the roughest and seediest spots in New York City. Home to dozens of sex-related businesses, from live sex shows and grindhouses, to peep shows and prostitution, the sex industry dominated the bottom of Times Square in the 1970s and 1980s (long after this photograph of the street was captured).
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive