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

East 14th Street & 1st Avenue, Manhattan

17 historical photos taken here between 1920 and 1951, oldest first.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1920

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1920

  • Feast of Santa Rosalia., 1927

    Feast of Santa Rosalia.

    1927

  • Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St., 1928

    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St.

    1928

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1928

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1928

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1928

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1928

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1928

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1928

  • Occupations - Peddlers - Miscellaneous - Dry goods - Food., 1934

    Occupations - Peddlers - Miscellaneous - Dry goods - Food.

    1934

  • Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St., 1934

    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St.

    1934

  • Manhattan: 13th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1934

    Manhattan: 13th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1934

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1936

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1936

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1937

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1937

  • Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue, 1937

    Manhattan: 14th Street (East) - 1st Avenue

    1937

  • Manhattan: 14th Street - 1st Avenue, 1942

    Manhattan: 14th Street - 1st Avenue

    1942

  • Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 14th St., 1942

    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 14th St.

    1942

  • Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St., 1942

    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 13th St.

    1942

  • 1st Avenue at 13st Street, to North, Manhattan, 1942-08-24

    1st Avenue at 13st Street, to North, Manhattan

    1942-08-24

  • First Avenue #237, 1951-08-20

    First Avenue #237

    1951-08-20

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

  • East 15th Street & 1st Avenue, Manhattan (3 photos)
  • East 12th Street & 1st Avenue, Manhattan (13 photos)
  • 14th Street & 2nd Avenue, Manhattan (4 photos)
  • Peddlers, Manhattan (6 photos)
  • East 13th Street & Avenue A, Manhattan (2 photos)
  • Livingston Place & East 16th Street, Manhattan (2 photos)
  • East 11th Street #418, Manhattan (2 photos)
  • Stuyvesant Square Park, Manhattan (5 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
Occupations - Peddlers - Miscellaneous - Dry goods - Food., 1934

Photo 7 of 17 at East 14th Street & 1st Avenue, Manhattan

Occupations - Peddlers - Miscellaneous - Dry goods - Food.

1934

Food and dry goods interspersed at N.W. corner of 13th Street and First Ave. May 19, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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