[79 Mulberry Street, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections.]
Click for a much larger view. How many humans do you see?
The building at 79 Mulberry Street still stands. Where there was once P. Rizzo, an Italian-American grocery (notice the canned tomatoes, the olive oil, and the bread), there is now a restaurant, H.K. Wonton Garden.
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[As a kid in Brooklyn, I always found those streetside cellar entrances deeply mysterious. Some had dumbwaiter-like machinery to bring goods up from below. No. 81, to the right in this photograph, still has railings on the sides of its cellar entrance.]
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Humans of Mulberry Street
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six definite, and a few maybes
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Maybe past the railings is a ramp for rolling that barrel. My old armoury had a coal chute hatch. (scuttle)
ReplyDeleteI recall from kidhood seeing long planks laid down over the stairs to store cellars. So there would have been barrels and dollies bringing stuff up from below.
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Thanks, Anon.
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