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Manhattan: 72nd Street (East) - 1st Avenue

1929

Manhattan: 72nd Street (East) - 1st Avenue

72nd Street west from and including First Avenue. The building in the right foreground is a branch of the Bank of the United States, whose failure a little over a year later will heighten the financial crisis. August 21, 1929. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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