(Edited) Appleton House at 200 William Street: originally I expected this to be a later photo but the date of 1895 seems to be correct: it was torn down by 1897 and left as an empty lot until it’s purchase in 1904, where the Black Building was then erected
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1946: World Building at right
1946 Park Row ft. World Building
1954: World Building and Metropolitan Realty Building at the entrance to the bridge
Summer 1955: World Building prepped for demolition (Park Row side, notice other demolition activity to its north)
North William Street side(Municipal Building crown in background)
Summer/Fall 1955: The dome stripped to its steel frame
November 1955: aerial of the demolition of the World Building and 22 North William St
Aftermath (undated)
October 1958, after reopening of the bridge. Ramps stream through the sites of the World Building and 22 North William Street: North William was eliminated and Park Row was rerouted parallel to William Street
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View from the World Building 1890.
The old Staats Zeitung Building on Tryon Row 1890.
Today stand on this site the Municipal Building.
World Building under construction 1890
View from the Tyron Row (Staats Zeitung Building) 1889
From my books Select New York 1889 and 1890
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Two Skyline Postcards with the old World Building 1950.
Skyline 1963
Areal view of Lower Manhattan 1964
Collection Mackensen
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I really like that second shot!
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American News Company Building at 39-41 Chambers Street, Built 1876-8 and demolished 1971 for an empty lot
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Now and History 1930
North East View from the Chrysler Building 1930.
South view from Chrysler Building 1930.
North West view from the Chrysler Building 1930.
Collection Mackensen
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It’s a shame that NY does not still look like this.
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An original glass positive from 1893 or 1894.
Looking South from the Savoy Hotel 1893
Looking Southeast from the Times Building 1911.
Looking Northeast to Queensboro Bridge from Times Building 1911.
Birds eye view from the 42nd Street 1907.
Collection Mackensen
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that last one is incredible!
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One Court Square under construction 1990.
http://vital.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:23732/THUMBNAIL_LARGE?view=true
http://vital.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:23780/THUMBNAIL_LARGE?view=true
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Tallest building in NYS outside of Manhattan and on Long Island for 29 years. It must have been crazy watching this go up back then.
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Oh God, the 90s are becoming vintage, which means in a few years I’ll also be vintage
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May 1988
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I could only imagine everyone in the neighborhood in shock seeing how high it was rising.
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1930s filter on my Midtown Manhattan Minecraft Project (2020 updated version) Looking NorthEast on 33rd Street
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55 Church Street taxpayer (1933-1984) circa 1977 with St. Paul’s Chapel and the Transportation Building in the background
A bus on Park Row circa 1963. Note the Tribune Building, and the Rhinelander Building in the far back - its blank wall is exposed due to the neighboring Metropolitan Building having been demolished weeks earlier for urban renewal
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