Skip to main content
VVestiges of New York49,000+ historical photos
MapBrowseAboutGet the iPhone app (opens the App Store)
  1. Browse /
  2. Manhattan /
  3. This place

Bowery & Delancey Street, Manhattan

11 historical photos taken here between 1890 and 1934, oldest first.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1890

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1890

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930–1934

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930; 1934

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930–1934

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930; 1934

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1930–1934

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1930; 1934

  • Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1934

    Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

    1934

  • Delancey Street #2

    Delancey Street #2

    Unknown

  • 6-8 Delancey Street - Bowery

    6-8 Delancey Street - Bowery

    Unknown

  • 6-8 Delancey Street - Bowery

    6-8 Delancey Street - Bowery

    Unknown

Stand where these photos were taken

The free OldNYC app for iPhone centers the map on you and shows the historical photos taken closest to where you are.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone

Nearby places

  • Chrystie Street & Delancey Street, Manhattan (13 photos)
  • Broome Street & Elizabeth Street, Manhattan (11 photos)
  • Bowery & Broome Street, Manhattan (6 photos)
  • Bowery & Spring Street, Manhattan (13 photos)
  • Chrystie Street & Broome Street, Manhattan (8 photos)
  • Delancey Street & Forsyth Street, Manhattan (23 photos)
  • Broome Street & Mott Street, Manhattan (3 photos)
  • Chrystie Street & Rivington Street, Manhattan (12 photos)

Explore

  • Map
  • Browse by place
  • Browse by decade

Boroughs

  • Manhattan
  • Brooklyn
  • Queens
  • Bronx
  • Staten Island

About

  • About and contact
  • Privacy

Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

OldNYC for iPhone

Find the historical photos taken closest to where you stand.

Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store
Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street, 1890

Photo 1 of 11 at Bowery & Delancey Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Bowery - Delancey Street

1890

169-163 Bowery, east side, south of Delancey Street, showing Miner's Bowery Theatre, (165-167) which was known around 1920, as the Royal Theatre. Also seen is the Third Ave., Elevated Lines. About 1890. International News Photos. The theatre after falling into disrepair was demolished around 1934 and has been replaced by a business structure since. The New York Sun of May 6, 1938, in a list of demolitions reports that the 5-story building (No. 163) adjoining same on the right, is to have its complete front altered.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

See this spot on the mapView on NYPL Digital Collections (opens in a new tab)

See this photo in high resolution

Zoom into the full-resolution scan in the OldNYC app for iPhone with OldNYC Supporter ($4.99). The free app also centers the map on you, so you can find the photos taken closest to where you stand.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone