[591-593, 610-12 Something, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click either image for a much larger view.]
I chose these photographs for the signage and for the fellow who appears to be iceskating his way into the frame. The 1940s.nyc website shows both locations on West Street, with nothing nearby that would make them identifiable. The Municipal Archives have nothing for these street numbers. The 1940 Manhattan telephone directory has nothing. Several sources in Google Books from the later 1940s give 801 Greenwich Street as an address for West Side Iron Works — perhaps that was a later address. Without placards showing block and lot numbers for these locations, I give up. As did, it would seem, the keepers of the signage.
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
T SIDE and WEST SID
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Love these photos. As a kid, I used to love driving across brick-paved roads in New York City. I loved the sound and feel of the tires across the bricks. I think it was the older neighborhoods that had these roads, which gave them a certain personality.
I remember brick and cobblestones here and there. Vanishing surfaces.
610 -612 greenwich st. Ny industrial directory in Google books under Westside iron works
I guess it might be called a ghost address. The 1940s.nyc site shows a different building for 610 and 612 (also without a placard), and there’s nothing in the NYC archives for either number on West or Greenwich.
It reminds me of those stories where someone enters, say, a store, and when they go back, there’s nothing there.
Aha — typing Westside, one word, changes things. In the 1940s, they’re listed at 801 Greenwich. In 1957 they’re listed at 612. In 1958 they’re listed at 799. Strange!
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