Buildings and Traffic on Park Row - 1916
Photograph shows streetcars and street scenes on Park Row with City Hall Park, Post Office and Courthouse and the Woolworth Building, looking south. The area on the left was known as Printing House Square, in the mid-19th century, where we can see the Ernst Plassman's statue of Benjamin Franklin.
Photo created / published: 1916. Source: Library of Congress.
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Enlargement of street scene from the photo above. The statue of Benjamin Franklin was unveiled in January 1872.
New York Times Building
Park Row
Post Office
Woolworth Building
(completed in 1913)
Buildings and Traffic on Park Row - 1916
Enlargement of the photo on the top. Streetcars and people on Park Row, with Broadway in the background.
St. Paul's Chapel