Manhattan: Greenwich Street - Morris Street, 1940

Manhattan: Greenwich Street - Morris Street

Greenwich Street(left), south from a point midway between Morris Street and Battery Place, and to the latter, showing the lower half of the block square site that is to be razed for the proposed Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Washington Street is on the right, where appears the lower portions of the Whitehall Building. At the top is the Park. The buildings in the foreground are No's. 22-24 Greenwich Street and No. 23 Washington Street. They are back to back and adjoin the parking lot shown. The point of vantage for the photographer is the Cunard Building on the opposite side of Greenwich Street. The "El" tracks are on same. Staff Photographer New York Post March, 1940

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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