“Cortlandt Street, New York, showing the Singer Building,” reads the caption of this postcard.
What a time capsule we’re looking at from what appears to be West Street. Not only is there no more Singer Building (brand new in 1908, demolished in 1968), but the small-scale walkups on the right were obliterated to make way for the World Trade Center in the early 1970s.
Cortlandt Street at this time had not yet earned its wonderful nickname, “Radio Row.”
That’s the platform for the Ninth Avenue El, which ran up Greenwich Street. Compare the postcard to the actual photo it comes from.
Shorpy has the enlarged image here, so you can gaze at old New York in incredible detail.
Tags: Cortlandt Street 1908, Cortlandt Stret Radio Row, El platforms NYC, Ninth Avenue El old photo, Radio Row NYC, trolleys old photos New York City, vintage New York postcards
Ephemeral New York 
April 27, 2015 at 9:20 am |
How fantastic – thanks for sharing! Love ephemeral little bits like this.
April 27, 2015 at 9:29 am |
Reblogged this on the Fusionists' Journal and commented:
I much appreciate early New York City