Category Archives: Architecture

Milk & Cream Wagon, 506-508 E. 118th Street Harlem, 1900

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This is a fantastic photograph showing a man stepping on his delivery wagon at 506-508 E. 118th Street in East Harlem, New York, 1900. Continue reading

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The Subway, At 126th Street and Manhattan Avenue, 1905

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Looking east at “the Subway” from between Broadway and Riverside Drive, at “126th Street and Manhattan Avenue” from Manhattanville Valley in Harlem from a postcard dated 1905. Continue reading

Two Views Of 119th Street, East Harlem,1900

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Two views of East Harlem on two different days looking west towards the elevated train at Park Avenue (in 1900 it was known as Fourth Avenue). Continue reading

The Parish of St. Paul, Harlem River Along Fourth Avenue

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The parish of St. Paul was established in 1834 by Bishop DuBois to serve Catholics in the whole upper area of old New York from New Rochelle to downtown Manhattan. Continue reading

116th Street At Broadway Subway Station In Harlem, 1910 (update)

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The first subway station on “The hill” looking north at Broadway and 116th Street is best seen in this photograph taken from an apartment unit in Morningside Heights area of Harlem in 1906. Continue reading

Blink Fitness At 125th Street And St. Nicholas Avenue

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Architects have almost completed the new construction of this building on the corner on the northwest corner of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Continue reading

125th Street Looking West in Harlem, 1940′s

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Harlem’s Main Street

The photograph looks northwest on a sunny day across 125th Street towards St. Nicholas Avenue, we think shot from one of the floors in the Hotel Theresa at 7th Avenue (aka Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., today). Continue reading

Broadway, North Of 145th Street Harlem, 1910

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The Heights

An old photo from 1910 shows a very busy intersection of Hamilton Heights that apparently was often congested with pedestrians.   Continue reading

Troger’s Hotel, 92 St. Nicholas Place in Harlem, 1889

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The Old Hotel And Watering Hole

The crowds attracted by both the Polo Grounds and the Harlem Speedway were all the justification needed to open a hotel and watering hole in the neighborhood. Continue reading

Sufi Abdul Hamid, The “Black Hitler” Of Harlem

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Sufi Abdul Hamid (born Eugene Brown) (January 6, 1903 in Lowell, Massachusetts – July 30, 1938) was an African-American religious and labor leader, and among the first African converts to Islam, accused of Anti-Semitism. Continue reading