1937; 1938

Manhattan: Houston Street (East) - Tompkins Street

(1) 518 to 500 East Houston Street, north side, west from Tompkins Street (extreme right), as seen north on Mangin Street. The 6-story structure consists of two units and bear Nos. 518 and 516. This will eventually be the N.W. corner of the new East River Drive. The 2-story garage is on building lots between 500 and 516. A 1-story affair (barely discernible) just west of the garage is No. 500. The clearance shown at the S.E. corner of Mangin and East Houston Streets was a former scrap-iron yard and bore Nos. 130 to 136 on the latter and 511 on the former. Across same appears the piles of debris, caused by the demolition on the west side of Tompkins Street which will lose its identity on the completion of this highway project. June 4, 1937. P. L. Sperr. (2) A similar view from the same point of vantage. Note the absence of the tenement at the rear of that on Houston Street. This stood on the south side of E. 3rd Street, a thoroughfare forming the northerly side of this block. June 29, 1938. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection