“On this day in 1945, a B-25 U.S. bomber accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building in heavy fog, killing 14 people and tearing a huge hole in the north side of the building”.
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1972, possibly 1973
1973
Great finds!
Hard to put a date on this one. There is a parking lot where a mass of buildings on Wall Street were demolished in 1977, but the huge National City Building is still there which was demolished starting in early 1981, so this is taken between 1977 and 1980.
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Wonder if the Singer Building would have worked as a residential conversion today?
I think it definitely would’ve. The floorplates were 65x65 ft. which would be perfect for condos/residential, and the upper floors were probably better, being more bulbous and therefore larger.
Also to mention the huge curved balcony with some good views
Just sucks this wasn’t a popular market back then, and sucks that it had to fall into the the wrong hands, followed by the worst possible hands at the worst possible time
hell the top 5 or so floors would make one heck of a palace.
Sadly downtown in the 60s was much like the 2000s after 9/11. Midtown was dominant and streetlife was dreary, but back then planners had huge boners for the ridiculous destroy everything ‘urban renewal’ mentality. Nobody was thinking about conversions.
Darn it.
Fuming ruins of the Fulton Fish Market Building, 1950
Interesting postcard of 90 West Street from 1907:
The closest to the original angle I could find, from 2017. Amazing how things change so much, Even seems like a lot of change for a century.
Interestingly it looks like the building had 4 turrets on the corners, similar to what the Woolworth Building has surrounding the crown, but these were removed sometime in the 1940s
45 years ago today, Philippe Petit, a French high-wire Artist performed a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of August 7, 1974.
These are more slightly folded eBay slides I found, these were the best quality but these may be from the NYPL or Historical society (a few others I recognized from there)
Radio Row from 74 Trinity Place, 1929
East side of 90 West Street, 1929
Washington Market during a 1940 renovation. It was demolished in 1960.
Woodbridge Building. It was mostly isolated from the other tall buildings downtown, and was a popular location for photographs.
ITT and Standard Oil Buildings, 1929:
Downtown skyline in 1957
The Twin Towers appearing in films.
Some photos.
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