I don’t know when this terra cotta street sign—with its banners, leaves, even a face—was made a permanent part of this old brick building. But viewing it transports you back to what was then called the Lower West Side, to the days when the neighborhood was mostly a warehouse district.
More street addresses carved into old buildings can be found here.
Tags: Beach street and Hudson Street, Lower West Side, Tribeca carved street sign, Tribeca warehouses
Ephemeral New York 
May 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm |
A building like that (and your other one’s) I’d be proud to live in…
May 3, 2009 at 12:53 am |
Cheers. I’ve always loved this corner and taken several pics of it myself.
May 4, 2009 at 4:58 am |
Yeah, this one’s a real “keeper.” You will never see such craftsmanship in architecture again, unfortunately.
I, too, have taken pics of it — for my SNOBs (Street Names On Buildings) collection. It’s not discernable from this shot, but the interesting thing about this one is that it’s at eye level. Most such signs are at least one floor up. I guess they would have been visible to passengers riding elevated trains or double-decker buses.
September 14, 2009 at 2:04 am |
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