[20–22 Stone Street, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
Wandering Lower Manhattan, I stopped in the Golf Ball District. This little corner building puts me in mind of the imaginings of the artist Ben Katchor. Let us imagine that people came to the Golf Ball District from far and wide, “from other neighborhoods and other districts,” as Jane Jacobs would have said, to buy their golf balls. Well, maybe. If you click for the much larger view, you’ll see that this business sold other items too.
I like the way the streetlight splits SO from DA on the restaurant signage below. Time to eat da lunch!
As for the name on the wall: Charles F. Noyes was a real-estate broker. His name turns up in two other tax photographs I’ve posted: 1, 2. Noyes brokered the sale of the Empire State Building in 1951. And it appears that he was a golfer.
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Good pic
here;s an earlier view
https://collections.mcny.org/Assets/V2/3GK40eaFg9xw9h9gUyVYB7eCbcN6_rJOewF_TCfvSL3w7jF0Ltyz_sfu4ybMxm3uZU2VXG9xRKmswJDoCnmEin5IOPdVzo8Qcqot9GmoIqk-/NtM97ZYHvevDZdA5/z6vVJhTE5YoISblX/MNY249665.jpg
Nice find. I checked the MCNY and saw nothing. But didn’t log in to the free account I made — that’s why I didn’t see anything. Must. Log. In.
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