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Changing New York; Radio Row

Cortlandt Street between Washington and Greenwich Streets, showing the signs of "radio row" where radios and related electronic equipment were sold. A station for the Ninth Avenue Line is in the right background.

1936

68 Cortlandt Street

Changing New York; Radio Row

Cortlandt Street between Washington and Greenwich Streets, showing the signs of "radio row" where radios and related electronic equipment were sold. A station for the Ninth Avenue Line is in the right background.

IMAGE DATE1936
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Cortlandt Street between Washington and Greenwich Streets, April 8, 1936.

Berenice Abbott’s view of Cortlandt Street includes the signs of "radio row" where radios and related electronic equipment were sold before the area was redeveloped as the World Trade Center. The Cortlandt Street station of the Ninth Avenue El is visible at right.

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