Manhattan: Downing Street - Bleecker Street
13 to 19 Downing Street, north side, west of Bleecker Street (right, not shown) as viewed from Sixth Ave. Extension and across a demolition between same. Photographers vantage point is a former alley known as Downing Place that laid in the center of the block bounded by Downing, Bleecker, Hancock, and Bedford Streets and which disappeared when Sixth Ave. in its extension was cut through this block. Views 2 and 3 of this set, Show closeup of No. 15, which is occupied by a rag picker. December 11, 1937. P. L. Sperr.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
