Opened in 1880, the 2nd Avenue elevated ("El") train had a stop at 34th Street. There are people walking on the sidewalks and crossing between the train lines. Carts are parked along the curbs and under the elevated tracks.
View of two sides of the Park Avenue Hotel exterior from the corner of Park Avenue and 33rd Street. In the foreground are horses and carriages as well as dogs and people walking on the sidewalks. The hotel no longer exists.
The caption reads: "The Casino and Abbey's Theatre, Broadway Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eighth Street." The Casino Theatre was built by Kimball & Wisedell for producer Rudolph Aronson. Managed by Canary & Lederer (1894-1903) the Shuberts acquired the...
Post office buildings--New York (State)--New York.
Caption reads: "New Post Office Building situated between 31st and 33d Streets. This handsome building was completed in 1913 at the cost of $6,200,000. It faces the Pennsylvania Terminal and is built over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad....
Caption reads: "Pennsylvania Hotel. One of the world's largest hotels, the finest of the chain of Statler Hotels. A popular meeting place for New Yorkers. Has 2200 rooms." Facing the hotel in the foreground is the old Pennsylvania Station...
Grierson writes to Markham about an array of topics including various social issues and the financial independence of writers and poets and how it restrains them from criticizing certain men and writing about certain topics.
Mahlon Day (1790-1854) was a Quaker, publisher of children's books, printer, and bookseller in New York City. This is a contemporary copy of a diary kept by Day while on a tour of the West Indies (Nov. 1839-Apr. 1840) in the company of Joseph John...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (SYRACUSE, N.Y., JUL 4 1904, 1130 PM; HOLYOKE, M.A., JUL 5, 1904 930 AM, RLC.D.), stamp; Postcard type: undivided back (This side is exclusively for the adress.); Logo (Private Mailing Card) printed in stylized...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (SYRACUSE, N.Y., JUL 4 1904, 1130 PM; HOLYOKE, M.A., JUL 5, 1904 930 AM, RLC.D.), stamp; Postcard type: undivided back (This side is exclusively for the adress.); Logo (Private Mailing Card) printed in stylized...
The view from the Park Avenue Hotel shows the rooftops of the buildings across the street as well as part of Park Avenue stretching up to Grand Central Railroad Station at the north end. Originally built as the Grand Central Depot, this Grand...
Caption reads: "The Waldorf - Northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street. H, J. Hardenbergh, Architect." Rare view of Waldorf before construction of the Astoria Hotel. Built by William Astor on the site of his father’s mansion and...
This colorful map shows New York City before it was incorporated into the five boroughs. Westchester County stretches down into what is now the Bronx, Brooklyn appears as an independent city, and Queens is only a county.
A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses.
Astor Residence, Waldorf Hotel, Holland House Hotel, Marble Collegiate Church in the distance. The image also features horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.
Two well-dressed women and a little girl crossing 33rd Street below the Waldorf-Astoria. There is a horse drawn carriage and several men also in the street, one possibly a flower vendor.
