Clippings; Street cleaning; Quinn, Patrick H., 1852-1926
New York World article on Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn issuing orders concerning obstructions by vehicles. Owners who disregard "the ordinance will find their vehicles in the city's possession."
Caption reads: A. Weingarnter's Lithy. N.Y., for D. T. Valentine's Manual / Drawing of Old Residences on Murray Hill, Lexington Avenue near 37th Street on the Old Boston Post Road, 1858.
Astor Residence, Waldorf Hotel, Holland House Hotel, Marble Collegiate Church in the distance. The image also features horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.
Image of 33rd Street and Broadway toward the end of the 19th Century showing an elevated train station and horse drawn carriages facing the area that later became Greeley Square.
Now the busiest crossing in New York and a great hotel center. The tower is the old Broadway Tabernacle where the much beloved Dr. Taylor preached until his death. The site was later occupied by the Hotel McAlpin.
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.
Shows the Murray Hill Tunnel, later called the Park Avenue Tunnel, with Fourth Avenue Horse Car Line "Harlem via Madison Av." with The Church of the Messiah in background.
New York World article reporting on the "gross violations in Brooklyn at night … streets encumbered by heavy trucks and other vehicles has stirred the Department of Streets."
New York World article describes the problem on some of Brooklyn's downtown streets with "horses that are stabled till morning and vehicles standing on the street just opposite the stables."
Clippings; Street cleaning; Quinn, Patrick H., 1852-1926
Police received several reports of trucks obstructing streets in the borough. Their response: "Reasonable time had to be allowed owners to remove such vehicles."
Street Scenes; Transportation; Organizations; Colleges & Universities; Schools; Traffic
Vehicles are shown along Fordham Rd. near the Kingsbridge Rd. area. View is facing east toward Webster Ave. Fordham Univ. and the New York Botanical Garden are in the distance on the left; and the cupola of Theodore Roosevelt H.S. can be seen on...
Plan of new Kindermann warehouse, at 1360 Webster Ave. near 170th St., by architect George S. Kingsley and drawn by J. Brioden. The company repaired and stored vehicles; packed and shipped household items, furniture and art.
The Coliseum, erected in 1926 for the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exposition,
before being removed and shipped to the Bronx in 1928 for reassembly. The frame of the structure was on the former site of an amusement park called Starlight Park on...
