[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
Seven.
—Fresca
Maybe past the railings is a ramp for rolling that barrel. My old armoury had a coal chute hatch. (scuttle)
I 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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.75128/
sidewalk cellar photo
Thanks, Anon.
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