Video from the old Third Avenue elevated railway 1950s.
The old El. 1957
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Equitable Building and Guaranty Trust Building, 1920s
Chase Manhattan c. 1965 featuring construction of 59 Maiden Ln and demolition of the 140 Broadway site
Equitable Building c. 1944
Lower Manhattan c. 1962, note the soon to be demolished 60 Broadway Building
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1930, before the 60 Wall Tower
Lightning contrasts the silhouettes c. 1940
1946/7, with the Singer Building covered in scaffolding
Penn Station in the shadows c. 1949
Western Electric Building c. 1961
Downtown c. 1963
Downtown c. 1964, featuring the Home Insurance Building under construction
Downtown in 1968
Sunset in 1983 showing the Twin Towers’ monopoly
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aerial view 1969
Skyline 1959
Brooklyn Bridge 1952
Lower Manhattan 1952
S.S United States in the Harbour
S.S, United States
Skyline at night in the 1940s
The R.M.S Olympic in Harbour from New York 1930s
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New York Produce Exchange and Kemble Building, seen in 1957 before the former’s demolition
Produce Exchange in 1948
Demolition of the Produce Exchange circa early 1957
The replacement 2 Broadway Building c. 1959 with the Kemble Building still behind it
Aerial view from 1960, after the Kemble Building site was sold & demolished for a parking lot
The frame of the Kemble Building’s replacement, dwarfed by 2 Broadway c. 1961
The new 1 Whitehall Street Building, completed in 1963
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The early use of skeleton, or skyscraper, construction in its inner walls.
The foundation more than fiftheen thousend spurce and pine piles.
The outer walls are inderpendent and completely self-supporting.
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Really sad loss. The replacement was at least alright in my opinion until it was modernized in the 90s
1936 vs. 1997
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More Pics from my collection:
Skyline 1970
Times Square 1970
view from RCA IBM Building under construction herbst 1980
Skyline march 1971
Skyline march 1971
View from the Empire State Building march 1971
view from RCA with Citicorp Center herbst 1980
Nightview from the WTC herbst 1980
Chrysler Building from Empore State Building 1990
Mid Manhattan 1990
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Is this a mirrored image? It’s really tripping me up
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Fidelity Casualty Building, Cedar and Temple Streets, c. 1898; demolished in 1968 for Liberty Plaza Park
Trinity Place facade c. 1934, showing the 21 story annex building on the left, built in 1910 at Liberty and Temple Streets
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from moses king 1905
Fidelity and Casualty Building and Washington Life Building 1903
Washington Life Building whith little Singer Building 1899
from Moses King 1903
a shorpy pic is a very large pic
in color 1960
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1896: View of the Clearing House on Cedar Street, featuring the Fidelity Casualty Building and the Bank of Commerce Building under construction
1907: view of the Singer Building under construction, showing the Fidelity Casualty Building, Bourne Building and soon to be hidden Washington Life Building
1910: Aerial view from the Singer Building flagpole, looking down on the Washington Life Building and the new yet sadly forgotten 21 story Fidelity Casualty Addition
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Post office from Broadway 1927
Post office 1930
Woolworth Building 1930
Woolworth Building 1913
Post Office 1910
City hall park and Park Row 1910
Post office 1910
1905
the end of the old Post office 1939
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Isn’t it crazy at the old Penn station and Madison Square Garden have now existed for the same amount of time, yet everyone loves the old one. How’s that for irony.
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I never realized it’s been there that long. The only words I need to label this as are iconic and ironic.
“ACME photographer Bertram Brandt made this view looking south from the sixteenth floor ACME offices, catching the impressive Pennsylvania Station”
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That’s the tragically funny thing about all of that pre-war architecture that was torn down. People at the time found it “dated”
Yet most people I know these days hate the modern stuff and just want the dated stuff back.
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