I wonder how many structures in that frame still stand today…other than the Brooklyn Bridge
the churches and couple of blocks of tenements here and there. A couple of federalist era buildings too.
Aside from St. Paul’s Chapel, there might be a couple buildings in the far background on the right or possibly a handful on the far left of frame. The area from Beekman Street (the street left of the short mansard roof building and the thin shot tower) up to the Brooklyn Bridge was completely wiped out though, whether it be for Water Street’s widening in 1960 or for that Title Project in 1966 that gave us Pace Plaza and Southbridge Towers.
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Looking west from the copper skybridge between the Hudson Terminal Buildings, we see Radio Row and Piers 13, 14 and 15 (1950s, Photovault)
Inverse view, c. 1961
Dey Street entrance on the Hudson Terminal North Building (Architects’ and Builders’ Magazine)
The Hudson Terminal’s entrance on Dey Street in the North Building
The end of the North Building’s Church Street lobby corridor
Ditto, showing the stairway viewed from the corridor’s entrance
1972: The North Building was demolished 4 years prior, and with only its entrance to the station left standing, the South Building alone faces off with 5WTC
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Central Train Yard Grand Central Depot 1907
Grand Central Depot NY Central 1900
Post Office and Grand Central Terminal 1913
Newspaper Row with the Tribune Building under construction in 1906
Looking down from Singer Building 1909
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Tribune Building from City Hall in 1957
(pieced together from Carnegie Arts of the United States via JSTOR)
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US NY NYC Skyline arriving on the Leonardo da Vinci - 1961 (EU61-K41-31) by David Pirmann, on Flickr
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1958, Lobby of the German American Building at 1 Liberty Street (demolished 1974)
1970, Office inside 60 Wall Street (demolished 1976)
1959, Chartered Bank in the Continental Building at 2 Liberty Street (demolished 1991)
1980, Royal Bank and Trust Co. in the Continental complex at 68-76 William Street (demolished 1991)
1963, looking east down Cedar towards the Morgan Guaranty complex and the huge Chase Manhattan Building
1957, Chase Manhattan Plaza excavation and construction, with the two Guaranty Trust Buildings being renovated and refurbished
Does anyone have interior pictures of these two buildings, namely from after they were renovated?
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Someone finally made a good video about the Singer Tower! It is mostly based on the book by Otto Semsch, probably the best source available, although it lacks some interesting facts that are not in the book. It’s a wonderful and worthy video anyway that will make a lot of people know that that beauty once existed and got replaced by that other…thing.
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The WTC in 1977
A cool picture from the lobby of the South Tower fitting the 90 West St. Building facade, 1977
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Tribune Building in 1963, Metro Realty Building being demolished at left
West Broadway in 1963
Printing House Square in 1958
Tribune Building and bridge plaza in 1960
Singer Building, City Investing Building and Chemical Bank Building in 1961
AT&T Building in 1961
South down Church Street in 1965
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