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Vandam Street & MacDougal Street, Manhattan

18 historical photos taken here between 1902 and 1938, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1902-10-24

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1902-10-24

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1902-10-24

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1902-10-24

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1918

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1918

  • Manhattan: Spring Street - MacDougal Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Spring Street - MacDougal Street

    1922

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1923

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1923

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1926

  • Manhattan: Spring Street - MacDougal Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Spring Street - MacDougal Street

    1926

  • Manhattan: Clark Street - Spring Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Clark Street - Spring Street

    1926

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - MacDougal Street

    1926

  • Manhattan: MacDougal Street - Spring Street, 1926

    Manhattan: MacDougal Street - Spring Street

    1926

  • Manhattan: Spring Street - Clark Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Spring Street - Clark Street

    1926

  • Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway, 1928--

    Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway

    1928--

  • Manhattan : 6th Avenue - Spring Street., 1928

    Manhattan : 6th Avenue - Spring Street.

    1928

  • Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway, 1928--

    Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway

    1928--

  • Manhattan: MacDougal Street - Sullivan Street, 1928

    Manhattan: MacDougal Street - Sullivan Street

    1928

  • Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway, 1928--

    Manhattan : 6th Avenue - looking southward from the Butterick Building - Spring and MacDougal; - Clarke; - Walker and West Broadway

    1928--

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - 6th Avenue, 1938

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - 6th Avenue

    1938

  • Manhattan: Vandam Street - 6th Avenue, 1938

    Manhattan: Vandam Street - 6th Avenue

    1938

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Manhattan: Spring Street - Clark Street, 1926

Photo 11 of 18 at Vandam Street & MacDougal Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Spring Street - Clark Street

1926

Spring Street, western section (originally Brannon Street), west from and including the future Sixth Avenue Extension (Clark Street on the south side, and Macdougal Street on the north side). The Butterick Building, erected in the winter 1902-03, at the right, will become the N.W. corner of Sixth Avenue and Spring Street. Adjoining the Butterick Building, and opposite the northern end of Clark Street (which will become part of the west side of Sixth Avenue), the new Vivadou Building is under construction (see also Vandam Street). At the southwest corner of Varick Street may be seen part of the American News Building, built two or three years before this picture was taken. The absorbtion of Brannon Street by Spring Street took place about 1807, and is one of the earliest examples of a process which went on in the city's street nomenclature all through the Nineteenth Century. "The Villager" attributes the name Brannon to the family of a man of that name who kept a public house in this neighborhood up to 1861. 1926.

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