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

Broadway & 70th Street, Manhattan

2 historical photos taken here between 1901 and 1920, oldest first.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 70th Street, 1901

    Manhattan: Broadway - 70th Street

    1901

  • West 70th Street - Broadway, 1920-11-09

    West 70th Street - Broadway

    1920-11-09

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

  • 69th Street & Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan (3 photos)
  • Broadway & 69th Street, Manhattan (5 photos)
  • West 71st Street & Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan (7 photos)
  • No. 166 West 72nd Street, Manhattan (3 photos)
  • West 68th Street & Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan (4 photos)
  • Columbus Avenue & 70th Street, Manhattan (4 photos)
  • Broadway & 67th Street, Manhattan (18 photos)
  • Broadway & 72nd Street, Manhattan (15 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: Broadway - 70th Street, 1901

Photo 1 of 2 at Broadway & 70th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Broadway - 70th Street

1901

Broadway, west side, from 70th to 71st Streets. In the centre is the older wing of the Sherman Square Hotel. The buildings at the left will later be demolished and a new twelve-story wing added to the hotel, so that it covers the entire block. The two-story building with the "Plumbing" sign is an old frame structure. At the extreme right is Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal). In the foreground, men have just started to break ground in the construction of New York's first subway. March 19, 1901. William B. Parsons Collection.

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