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.

 

Park Row buildings

 

Antique photos of NYC

 

 

 

Street scene

 

Park Row NY old

 

 

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Park Row old

 

Park Row

 

 

Telephone and Telegraph Building at 195 Broadway.

 

 

Enlargement of street scene from the photo above. The statue of Benjamin Franklin was unveiled in January 1872.

 

City Hall Park

 

 

Woolworth Building

 

New York Times Building

 

Park Row

 

 

Post Office

 

Woolworth Building

(completed in 1913)

 

Streetcars

 

 

 

NYC

 

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.

 

Park Row NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Paul's Chapel