1930

Manhattan: 215th Street (West) - 10th Avenue

West 215th Street (center of view, from left to right), between Tenth (Amsterdam) Ave., and the Harlem River, showing the car yards and repair shops of the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (Eighth Ave. subway) extending south to West 208th Street (foreground, not seen). The site of Nagel Cemetery, one of New York's oldest burial grounds: pre-dating the American Revolution. Across the Harlem River (right) is visible the shore line of the Bronx. At the left is the Marble Hill section of Manhattan, also across the river. About 1930. Gift of W. Jerome Daly. Secretary of the Board of Transportation, City of New York.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection