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4th Avenue & 20th Street, Manhattan

14 historical photos taken here between 1900 and 1932, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East), 1900

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East)

    1900

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street, 1906

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street

    1906

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1906

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1906

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street (East), 1906

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street (East)

    1906

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1906

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1906

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1910

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1910

  • Manhattan: 20th Street (East) - 4th Avenue, 1925

    Manhattan: 20th Street (East) - 4th Avenue

    1925

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East), 1929

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East)

    1929

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1932

  • Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street, 1932

    Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street

    1932

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Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street (East), 1906

Photo 4 of 14 at 4th Avenue & 20th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street (East)

1906

Fourth Ave., east side, north from East 19th to 23rd Streets, showing two churches and a hotel, prominent of which is the All Souls Unitarian Church at the S.E. corner of East 20th Street. Occupying the S.E. and N.E. corners of East 21st Street respectively are the New Amsterdam Hotel and Calvary P.E. Church. The Unitarian Church that which George F. Baker, Joseph Choate, William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper were worshipers, was demolished in 1929 and the property sold for a Club hotel which never materialized and the site vacant since. The congregation meanwhile moved into a newly constructed edifice at Lexington Ave. and East 80th Street. According to the New York Times of March 26, 1938 a new 6-story apartment house will shortly rise here at a cost of $600,000. 1906. Brown Brothers.

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