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Chambers Street and Church Street
Chambers Street and Church Street
Chambers Street and Church Street

[Parcels 67 and 70 at 149 Church Streets: IND 8th Avenue Line]

Negative documents land parcels 67 and 70 from the first floor fire escape of 149 Church Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND 8th Avenue Line. Shows construction site, pedestrians, storefront, and apartment house buildings.

IMAGE DATE1927
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Northwest corner of Church and Chambers Streets, 1927.

The two five-story buildings on this corner were demolished in the early 1930s widening of Church Street. Today the building at the northwest corner of this intersection is the arched window Cary Building seen at the far left of this image.

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