1939

Manhattan: 42nd Street (East) - 1st Avenue

East 42nd Street, west from First Avenue, showing the enclosed passageway through which the streetcars pass. Atop same is the residential locale, Tudor City. This in earlier days was a rocky wasteland populated by a group of "Shanty Irish" led by one, Cocoran, and for whom this became known as "Cocoran's Roost". July 23, 1939 No's. 1-2 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection