Friday, May 22, 2015

OldNYC

I've been exploring the NYPL's Digital Collections archives for some time now, and yesterday the library released a new search tool, an interactive map, OldNYC.org,  that makes it easy to sample its collection of historic photographs by neighborhood.




















Anyone living in the South Slope/Greenwood/Gowanus/South Brooklyn (etc. etc.) area should be able to recognize the location in this Percy Loomis Sperr photograph, taken in 1930. Any takers?




















2 comments:

15th St said...

Standing at the intersection of 16th St and 4th Ave, looking west. That church-type structure w/ the turret is no longer there (it would be just to the west of the FLOORS place), but I see that the ever-changing restaurant on the corner inhabits the same building in the photo…and the two adjacent structures are still there as well.

onemorefoldedsunset said...

Yes!! I fear those two little houses may not last much longer, unfortunately.