Here’s a 1940 photograph of Grand Street looking east from West Broadway in SoHo. Naturally the first thing I noticed was the unusually curved lamppost on the corner. Why would a lamp have such a shape? The answer is simple. Until the late 1930s, the 6th Avenue El traveled up West Broadway to West 3rd […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2019/01/west-broadway-lamp-1940/
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