Sunday, April 20, 2025

Mystery on Mulberry Street

[91 Mulberry Street, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]

The address is that of the Lion Spaghetti House.


The arrow is perhaps a little off-kilter. But neither spaghetti nor an arrow is the reason for choosing this photograph. Click for the larger view and look closely. Do you see what a reader saw and pointed out to me?

Thanks, Brian.

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comments: 5

Fresca said...

Woman with head in hands--but you'll have seen that.
Is there a shadow figure walking into the frame on the bottom right?

Anonymous said...

She sits by the window.

Michael Leddy said...

It was the head at the window, but yes, there’s a ghost in the street too.

Anonymous said...

Not a fedora?

Michael Leddy said...

Me, I think it's a hatted man, but I can see the figure as possibly a woman with an old-fashioned hairdo.