Sidewalk on the West Side of Water Street South of Fulton Street: IND Fulton Line
Negative documents street conditions at Water and Fulton Streets as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Fulton Line. Shows street, barber shop, sidewalks, and apartment house buildings. Original photographic logbook notation reads: View of sidewalk on the west side of Water Street at 100 feet south of the south base line in Fulton Street, Manhattan. Camera facing south from station 15 and 10 at 35 feet south of the south base line in Fulton Street.
New York Transit MuseumWater Street, South from Fulton Street; January 15, 1928.
The barber's pole is outside a storefront barbershop in the United States Arcade Building, a 1898 commercial building occupying a site on the south side of Fulton Street, between Water and Pearl Streets.
In 1961, U.S. Arcade was sold and razed to developers Meyer Bros., who put up a parking lot. Later, the site would become part of the full-block footprint of 127 John Street (a.k.a. 200 Water Street), an International Style high-rise designed by Emery Roth & Sons and completed in 1971.
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