1928; 1940

Manhattan: 6th Avenue South Extension - Minetta Lane. Left: Sixth Avenue Extension, south from Minetta Lane. The clearing in the immediate foreground is the site of 25 and 27 Minetta Lane and of 2-14 Carmine Street, which have been demolished. A truck is driving southeast on Bleecker Street and is passing the former north corner of Downing Street. The billboards in the distance are on the west side of Congress Street, at the south west corner of Houston Street, October 11, 1928. Right: Sixth Avenue, west side, from Minetta Street, October 10, 1940.

Sixth Avenue Extension, south from Minetta Lane. The clearing in the immediate foreground is the site of 25 and 27 Minetta Lane and of 2-14 Carmine Street, which have been demolished. A truck is driving southeast on Bleecker Street and is passing the former north corner of Downing Street. The billboards in the distance are on the west side of Congress Street, at the S.W. corner of Houston Street. October 11, 1928. P. L. Sperr. (2) Sixth Avenue, West side from Minetta Street. October 19th, 1940 P.L.Sperr,

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection