Demonstrating safety procedures on equipment inside the company at 141st St. & Willis Ave. (now the site of the Mott Haven Houses). The company specialized in steel file cabinets and other office equipment.
Located at Kingsbridge Ave. & W. 230th St., Automobile Warehouses, Inc. serviced up to 4,000 new cars which came in monthly before being sent to dealers and customers. The boundary line of the Bronx and Manhattan ran through the parking lot in...
Bradley-Mahony's new anthracite yard at 140th St. & Exterior St. showing a company truck being loaded with coal. Also note bread, laundry, dry cleaning and fur businesses in the surrounding blocks.
Located at the junction of Lafayette Ave. & tiffany St., the apparel center is the former site of the American Bank Note Co. (The building is now used for artist studios and for a school.)
Side view of the Bronx Terminal Market showing various local produce vendor signs. The buildings parallel the tracks of the Erie Railroad and Hudson Division of the New York Central Railroad. The Macombs Dam Bridge is also shown.
Twenty-five tank cars, each holding 8,000 gallons of wine from Chateau Martin, California, arrive at the Bronx Terminal Market. The shipment is thought to be the largest trainload of wine ever shipped in the country. The building on the left is the...
Aerial view of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York's site at Hunts Point and the surrounding neighborhood. This gas plant produced 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily.
Interior view of the Fire Alarm Control building where fire alarms are received by telephone and checked for location so that the proper companies can respond to the emergency.
Buildings; Public Buildings; Libraries; Organizations
Interior view of Bronx Reference Collection of the New York Public Library on Marion Ave. Members of the Bronx Board of Trade examine the business collection.