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

Riverside Drive & 163rd Street, Manhattan

19 historical photos taken here between 1931 and 1941, oldest first.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1937

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1937

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1937

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1937

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1937

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1937

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939–1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939; 1940

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939–1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939; 1940

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1939–1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1939; 1940

  • Manhattan: 163rd Street (West) - Riverside Drive, 1940–1941

    Manhattan: 163rd Street (West) - Riverside Drive

    1940; 1941

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1940

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1940

  • Manhattan: 163rd Street (West) - Riverside Drive, 1940–1941

    Manhattan: 163rd Street (West) - Riverside Drive

    1940; 1941

  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1940

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

    1940

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

  • Riverside Drive & 164th Street, Manhattan (10 photos)
  • Fort Washington Avenue & West 163rd Street, Manhattan (16 photos)
  • Riverside Drive & 165th Street, Manhattan (23 photos)
  • Riverside Drive & 160th Street, Manhattan (2 photos)
  • 165th Street & Fort Washington Avenue, Manhattan (24 photos)
  • Alexander Hamilton Apartments, northeast corner Broadway…, Manhattan (3 photos)
  • Rio Apartment Hotel: 10 Fort Washington Av-W. 160th St, Manhattan (2 photos)
  • Charleston Court, southwest corner Broadway and 163d Street, Manhattan (3 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: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street, 1940

Photo 16 of 19 at Riverside Drive & 163rd Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 163rd Street

1940

Riverside Drive, north from W. 163rd Street. Buildings shown form the Columbia Medical Center. On the right are the main units at Broadway. The Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing is in the center. To the left is the Neurological Institute. View 3 is taken on that portion of the Drive, the Boulevard Lafayette and includes at its right one of the old buildings that formerly housed the New York Institution for the Deaf. This escarpment appears in the midground of the preceding photos. May 18, 1940 Views 1,2,3 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