1895

Manhattan: 3rd Avenue - 6th Street (East)

Third Avenue, east side, from East 6th to 7th Streets, the site of Tompkins Market and Armory. This view shows the Hall Place and East 7th Street side of same. The building was erected in 1860 for the Seventh Regiment. A new Armory was erected in 1877-1880 at Park and Lexington Avenues, between 66th and 67th Streets for this organization. Meanwhile the 69th Regiment, organized in 1852, has been meeting here. In the basement are the drill-rooms. On the first floor are markets; on the second floor, ten company rooms and offices; and on the third floor, a drill room. The Abram S. Hewitt Memorial (Cooper Union Annex) building was later erected here; the market being discontinued and the 69th moving to their new Armory on Lexington Avenue between East 25th and 26th Streets. About 1895 Gift of Urbrock Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection