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Reade Street and West Broadway
Reade Street and West Broadway
[West Broadway and Chambers Street, Manhattan, NY]
West Broadway and Chambers Street, Manhattan, NY. Northward view of IRT elevated tracks along West Broadway. Also showing shops, a beer hall, and numerous horse-drawn carriages and carts.
IMAGE DATE1902
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New York Transit Museum
New York Transit MuseumSixth Avenue El tracks above West Broadway, April 14, 1902.
The photographer is facing uptown, just north of the Chambers Street elevated station. The building at left, No. 16 Hudson Street, is a six-story neo-Grec warehouse dating to the 1870s and operated by the Thurber, Wyland & Co. grocery wholesalers. Bogardus Triangle, a small park bounded by West Broadway, Reade and Hudson Streets, is out of frame at left.
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive