Village Preservation - Page 49 - Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

26 Bond Street, north side between Lafayette and Bowery

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152 Orchard Street, clothing merchants

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140 Orchard St. (possibly), west side between Delancey and Rivington Streets

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Woman with Bags Laughing, 99 East 4th Street, north side between 2nd and 1st Avenues

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Vendors in front of 130 2nd Avenue, southeast corner of St. Mark’s Place

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182-186 1st Avenue between 11th & 12th Streets, east side

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182, 184, & 186 2nd Avenue between 11th & 12th Streets, east side, with street still cobblestoned. ‘Telephone Answering Service — Messages Taken Day and Night.’

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181-189 2nd Avenue, southwest corner of 12th Street, Jaffe Yiddish Arts Theater

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174 1st Avenue, east side between 10th & 11th Streets, Pete’s Spice and Everything Nice

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170 2nd Avenue, southeast corner of 11th Street, Coffee Shop

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170 1st Avenue, east side between 10th & 11th, Willy’s Young Center

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166, 168, & 170 1st Avenue between 10th & 11th Streets, east side, Lanza’s Italian Restaurant

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160 & 162 1st Avenue, southeast corner of 10th Street, looking down East 10th Street east of 1st Avenue

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Parkgoers sitting in Tompkins Square Park, looking north to Pavillion and East 10th Street

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Looking south from Abe Lebewohl Park, northwest corner of 10th Street & 2nd Avenue, to 159 2nd Avenue

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Hare Krishnas in Tompkins Square Park with Christodora House, 143 Avenue B, visible

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Hare Krishnas in Tompkins Square Park (3)

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Hare Krishnas in Tompkins Square Park (2)

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Hare Krishnas in Tompkins Square Park sitting with Bhaktivedanta Swami, founder of the Hare Krishna movement

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Abe Lebewohl Park, northwest corner of 2nd Avenue & 10th Street, looking southeast to Second Avenue Deli at 156 2nd Avenue

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81-83 St. Mark’s Place, northwest corner of 1st Ave, Stromboli Pizza

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41 St. Mark’s Place, Cafe Orlin

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31 (right) & 29 St. Mark’s Place, north side between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, ‘Flashback Records’

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Women on a bus; location unknown

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Woman on her roof patio; date and location unknown.

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Woman in a tenement window, Lower East Side; date and exact location unknown

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View of rear building fire escapes. Date and exact location unknown, probably East Village/Lower East Side

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Sidewalk Scene, taken on the north side of 8th Street just east of University Place

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Sidewalk art shopping with baby on back, taken on the north side of 8th Street just east of University Place

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Rapt children; location unknown

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Outdoor bargain shopping; location unknown but likely Lower East Side

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Kids gathering and old women talking on the sidewalk, Lower East Side

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‘It’s time to clean this mess up,’ (location unknown)

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Haircutting for Men and Women; Kosher Meats and Poultry, East Village

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Ghost figure graffiti, likely one of artist Richard Hambleton’s “Shadowman” figures (location unknown)

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Piragua, 4th Street & Avenue B, northeast corner

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Cooking on the sidewalk in summer in front of Banco Popular, 90 Delancey Street, north side between Ludlow and Orchard Streets

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Backs of rowhouses over parking lot; location unknown

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‘Architects for Social Responsibility’ (location unknown)

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Playing music in Tompkins Square Park

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Listening in Tompkins Square Park

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473 Broadway, west side between Grand and Broome

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Mosque at 403 East 11th Street, just east of the northwest corner of 1st Avenue

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381 Lafayette Street south sidewall with ghost sign, northeast corner of Great Jones Street

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381 Lafayette Street, south-facing side wall, from Great Jones Street east of Lafayette

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Street Vendor’s wares on 357 Canal Street, aka 2 Wooster St, northeast corner. Wooster side of building looking east down Canal St with 276 Canal Street (southeast corner of Broadway) visible at top right corner

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353 to 359 Bowery (right to left), east side between 3rd & 4th Streets, including Phebe’s

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312 & 314 Bowery aka 2 Bleecker, 4 Bleecker, & 1 Bleecker (left to right), west side of Bowery, taken from NE corner of Bowery and 2nd Street, just north of CBGBs

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310 Bowery, Bowery Lumber Co., west side between Houston & Bleecker Streets

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262 Elizabeth Street, east side between Houston and Prince Streets

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201 East 10th Street, northeast corner at 2nd Avenue

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156-164 Bowery (left to right), west side between Kenmare & Broome Streets

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Sidewalk flower vendor, 133 East 4th Street, aka 67 1st Avenue, northwest corner

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Fourth Avenue Book Store, 132 4th Av, SE corner 13th St; 4th Avenue Books, former Post Office Bldg

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94, 96, & 98 East Broadway (left to right), between Pike & Eldridge Streets. ‘The House of the Jewish Book.’

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74 Franklin Street, north side between Broadway and Church Street

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74 (left) and 72 Franklin Street, north side between Broadway and Church Street

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52 Bond Street (middle), 54 Bond Street aka 330 Bowery, Bowerie Lane Theater aka Bond Street Savings Bank Building (right), northwest corner

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14th Street, Union Square East, & 4th Avenue intersection and park, crumbling S. Klein’s is visible behind trees

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L-R: 34 to 24 Union Square East, between 15th & 16th

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Greenwich Village pier, pile of fallen beams

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Greenwich Village pier, bollard and rope

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront, south of pier head house, with elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished) behind

Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973.

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront, north of pier head house, looking south with World Trade Center and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished) visible.

Looking back toward the 11th Street pier headhouse, around Bethune Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included in the 9/11 Memorial Collection.

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront between West 12th (l.) and Bethune Streets, with elevated Miller (West Side) Highway visible and Superior Inks Factory (demolished; now site of the Superior Inks luxury condos) behind it.

For more information on Superior Inks, click here and here. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973.

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Crushed and abandoned car, Greenwich Village waterfront, looking north and west towards the Hudson River

Photographed near Bethune Street

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Crushed and abandoned car along the Greenwich Village waterfront, looking south

Photographed near Bethune Street

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Collapsing beams on Greenwich Village pier, looking south

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Greenwich Village pier, broken beams

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Astor Place Luncheonette and the Cooper Union

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Jack Dowling at the 3rd Avenue El near Cooper Union while a student there

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Greenwich Village piers with the World Trade Center in the distance and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished)

Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included in the 9/11 Memorial Collection.

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