1939

Manhattan: West Street - Battery Place

West Street, north from Battery Place, showing an incisive view of this marginal thoroughfare with buildings lining the easterly side of same and facing North (Hudson) River piers. To the right in View No. 1 are the Whitehall, the Downtown Athletic Club and the United Fruit Buildings. The prominent center structure is the 29 story N. Y. Telephone Building. View No. 2 shows only the pier fronts and the cars parked outside of same. October 18, 1939 Views: 1-2 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection