- Silas Herring Building (c. 1849-1860) early factory building, still standing at 669 Hudson St., @ 14th.
Recent photo and details @ www.flickr.com/photos/emilio_guerra/5943989411/ - artolog - Still there, though radically modified. Former Julius Wile Sons warehouse (note signage), now The Porter House, at 9th Ave. and 15th St.
www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE-036.htm
"The lower part of the $22 million project is a careful restoration of a brick Renaissance Revival warehouse built for Julius Wile, wine importers, in 1905. " - artolog
Raised express track 9th Ave. "L" (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Raised express track 9th Ave. "L"
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19767
Call Number: LC-B2- 3575-4
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Moayad Hassan (4 weeks ago | reply)
Ok, for a moment I thought this it a photograph of a modern scene edited with Snapseed or something :)
artolog (4 weeks ago | reply)
Taken from same spot:
artolog (4 weeks ago | reply)
This picture shows the 1915 conversion of the center express tracks at the 14th Street Station to a "hump express" configuration, whereby express trains arrived at the station on a higher track than locals. It is taken from the east side of 9th Ave., looking northwest toward 14th St.
This August, 1915 New York Times article describes the resumption of express train service after a two week suspension to raise the tracks, which has been completed at the time of this photo.
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F508 16F6355A1573...
This photo from the 30's shows the finished station from the opposite side of 9th avenue, looking northwest:
picasaweb.google.com/116363262722377355677/NY C9thAveEl?no...
And this aerial photo from the 30's shows that the tracks were eventually enclosed and roofed over at 14th St.
picasaweb.google.com/116363262722377355677/NY C9thAveEl?no...
B-59 (3 weeks ago | reply)
Must be approximately this sight in this case:
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victor98_2001 (3 weeks ago | reply)
nice shot
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