1930: Broadway and West 104th Street By Caitlin Hawke
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Late 1880s: Riverside Drive and West 108th Street By Caitlin Hawke These are two views of the Riverside Drive and W. 108th Street mansion of Samuel Gamble Bayne (1844-1924), founder of Seabord National Bank, a precursor of JP Morgan Chase. An original director of the Bankers' Trust Company and the Columbia Trust Company, the Irish-born Bayne was likely a billionaire by the turn of the century. 1910: West End Avenue between W. 102nd & W. 103rd Streets, West Side of the Street By Caitlin Hawke
Sometime after 1904: Broadway and West 98th Street - Subterranean By Caitlin Hawke
1920s: Broadway and West 103rd Street By Caitlin Hawke Originally constructed as a hotel just as the IRT was nearing completion in 1905, the Marseilles is a Beaux-Arts neighborhood gem that was landmarked in 1990. This vintage postcard from 1948 shows the Marseilles in the early 1920s (circa). The Marseilles was designed by architect Harry Allen Jacobs. 1910: Riverside Drive and West 103rd Street By Caitlin Hawke 1940: Riverside Park Looking Toward the BallfieldBy Caitlin Hawke
1900: Broadway Looking North from West 101st Street By Caitlin Hawke
1933: Broadway near West 100th Street By Caitlin Hawke
1910: Riverside Drive at West 96th StreetIf you have even had a brush with social media these days, you have either delved deep into your trove of photo negatives or you've been treated to friends' blasts from the past. I have seen all sorts of photos resurface that ought perhaps to remain buried in their non-digital past. But thanks to the relentless burgeoning of Facebook & Company and with a nod to the rapacious hunger we all seem to have for our younger selves, old photos are flying high these days.
That got me to thinking about crowd sourcing from neighbors pictures our area from the past. We need not go all the way back to renderings of Lenape in Manahatta (but it would be nice if we could find some!). Throwbacks should be any "period" pictures we can find. For starters, I'd love to have some Broadway storefronts from the 1970s, for example...or just a shot of those old gas guzzlers tooting down West End. So, each Thursday that I have something new, I will post a Throwback Bloomingdale image. For the full series, click here. Today's image goes back a century. It is thanks to Camille Colon. And I thought it was a perfect launch image since it shows our neighborhood from its southern edge. For the purposes of these posts, Bloomingdale will be loosely defined as "I'll know it when I see it" but will generally stretch from about 96th to 110th on the West Side. Exceptions made for excellent images. So, were you here in the 1950s? 1960s? Earlier? Do you have great pictures of your street hailing from a bygone decade. Shots of the park, Broadway storefronts, neighbors in bell bottoms? Let's get them up and online for everyone to enjoy. Nostalgia is in. Long live nostalgia. By Caitlin Hawke |
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