[2516 Hughes Avenue, The Bronx, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
Residential blocks are seldom the most compelling viewing in the WPA tax photographs. But then a building shows up with people looking out from windows and doorways, watching the photographers, and a block has interest. Or there’s a kid stuck minding the baby carriage, and lots of long shadows in the foreground. And one mysteriously long, long shadow. How? Why? The shadows know.
Today the corner where this residence and others stood is home to the Avicenna Surgery Center.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023
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Fedora shadow might be the photographer
same team?
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~6~6~28750~600672:635-East-Fordham-Road?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code&qvq=q:block%3D3273;sort:borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code;lc:NYCMA~6~6&mi=44&trs=99
He looks like he’s ready to press the button.
Quite spooky to have those shadows in the presence of an undertaker.
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