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120th Street & Pleasant Avenue, Manhattan

17 historical photos taken here between 1918 and 1934, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1918–1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1918; 1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1919

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue, 1919

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    1919

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street, 1932

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street, 1934

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street

    1934

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 120th Street (East), 1934

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 120th Street (East)

    1934

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street (East), 1934

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street (East)

    1934

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street, 1934

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street

    1934

  • Manhattan: 120th Street (East) - Pleasant Avenue, 1934

    Manhattan: 120th Street (East) - Pleasant Avenue

    1934

  • Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 120th Street (East)

    Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 120th Street (East)

    Unknown

  • Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    Manhattan: 120th Street - Pleasant Avenue

    Unknown

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Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street, 1934

Photo 14 of 17 at 120th Street & Pleasant Avenue, Manhattan

Manhattan: Pleasant Avenue - 122nd Street

1934

(1) 410, 412, 414, 416-18 Pleasant Avenue at S.E. corner of 122nd Street. 416-18, the plant of the Pleasant Paper Company, was built shortly prior to 1930, replacing two three-story frame houses which occupied the site since the 1860's. The remaining frame house is shown at 414. "The Pleasant" is a five-story apartment house erected around 1890; and 410, the brownstone house with the stoop, is older than that. September 19, 1934. P. L. Sperr. (2) A closer view, two years earlier, of the corner building and the surviving frame house, 414, 416-418 Pleasant Avenue. 1932. J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York.

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