Street Scenes; Transportation; Buildings; Department Stores; Advertising
149th St. from Courtlandt Ave. looking toward Third Ave. and the El. The Busher Building is on the left, and Hearns Department Store is beyond the Third Ave. El. Note also billboards.
Busy traffic scene at E. 149th St. & Third Ave. showing automobilies, buses, an elevated subway line, taxi and even Hearns Dept. Store employees on strike.
Melrose Ave. looking at the intersection of Melrose and Third Avenues and showing automobiles, buses, taxis and the Third Ave. El. The subway station is for the #2 and #5 lines.
Street Scenes; Rivers; Transportation; Billboards; Stores; Schools; Buildings
Air view of the 149th St. Hub area looking toward the East River. Also shown are elevated subway lines; billboards, stores, and the top of the five-story P.S. 27 building at 519 E. 147th St.
Plan of the terminal at 1040 E. 149th St. & the East River which will be 300,000 square feet and have a capacity of 28 million gallons of oil. This terminal is a Cirillo Bros. enterprise. Otto J. & Warren A. Samback are the consulting engineers.
Bronx County Trust Co. at E. 149th St. and Third Aves. looking south. Also shown are the Third Ave. El, on the right, and on the left, a spur of the Second Ave. El that terminated at Freeman St. A White Rock truck and a Willis Avenue trolley are...
Ceremony establishing Bronx, New York Post Office in the former Bronx Central Annex Building at 149th St. & Grand Concourse. This event inaugurated a separate postal designation from Manhattan for the Bronx. Originally all Bronx mail was addressed...
Campaign to promote the use of zip (zoning improvement plan) codes, that promise to speed the delivery of mail. Shown is the lobby of the main Bronx post office at 149th St. & Grand Concourse.
View of Busher Building at 349 E. 149th St. in the Hub area. The Bronx Board of Trade had its headquarters in this building. Also shown are local stores and automobiles.
Railroads; Highways; Stadiums; Public Buildings; Schools; Housing
Proposed plan (never implementd) of decking for the New York Central Railroad yards in the West Bronx. Shown in plan are the Major Deegan Expwy., Yankee Stadium, the County Building, Cardinal Hayes H.S., the 149th St. Post Office, Patterson Houses,...
