Manhattan: Lafayette Street - Houston Street (East), 1900

Manhattan: Lafayette Street - Houston Street (East)

Lafayette Street (Elm Street), north from but not including East Houston Street, showing the street under construction after the demolition of buildings which formerly stood there. The construction of the street necessitated the razing of many buildings in a northerly direction from Elm Street, which terminated at a point slightly south of Jersey Street, to Lafayette Place, which commenced at Great Jones Street. The new thoroughfare was named Lafayette Street several years later. November 5, 1900. Board of Transportation Photograph. William B. Parsons Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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