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Convent Avenue & West 143rd Street, Manhattan

3 historical photos taken here between 1888 and 1891, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West), 1888

    Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West)

    1888

  • Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West), 1891

    Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West)

    1891

  • Convent Avenue - 143rd Street, 1891

    Convent Avenue - 143rd Street

    1891

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Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West), 1891

Photo 2 of 3 at Convent Avenue & West 143rd Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Convent Avenue - 143rd Street (West)

1891

Convent Ave. at West 143rd Street, showing a row of 4-story structures on the Avenue and Alexander Hamilton's famous thirteen trees at what would be today (1937) the S.W. corner of the aforementioned intersection. The last of these symbols of the thirteen original states was cut down in 1908 and a portion of the trunk retained by Hamilton Grange; the former residence of this heroic individual, which originally stood to the rear of the same. Photographer is viewing eastward from a point east of Amsterdam Ave. and north of West 142nd Street. For further information see: New York, Old and New by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Illustration facing page 326. 1891. Gift of Randall Comfort.

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