Manhattan: 208th Street (West) - 9th Avenue
(1) West 208th Street (extreme foreground), north side, between Ninth and Tenth Aves., showing a general view northeastward from the I.R.T. elevated station at 207th Street and Tenth Ave. Also shown (background) is the Harlem River and across it the high shore of the borough of the Bronx. The area shown in this view, north from West 207th to by the Harlem River is in the process of being leveled and graded (destroying all the previous street demarcations) for the erection of numerous machine and repair shops of the Municipal Subway System (Eighth Ave.). August 25, 1927 P.L. Sperr (2) The same, as seen from West 209th Street. Note the Burns Brothers Inc. coal yard (background) at the Harlem River, between West 215th and West 216th Streets, and a power house at the N.E. corner of Ninth Ave. and West 216th Street. August 25, 1927 P.L. Sperr
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
