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Riverside Drive & Payson Street, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - Payson Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - Payson Street

    1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: Riverside Drive - Payson Street, 1928

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Manhattan: Riverside Drive - Payson Street

1928

1815 and 1825 Riverside Drive, north side, from Payson Street (left) to Seaman Ave. (right), showing two apartment houses, the Inwood Arms and the Dyckman Arms occupying this entire block front. Photographers vantage point is in Fort Tryon Park, which at this point forms the south side of the Drive. Note that this thoroughfare is in an eastward and westward direction here. About 1928.

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