And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street and East 6th Street

[245 Mulberry Street, Little Italy, New York. c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click any image for a much larger view.]

It was the cat (or dog?) that caught my eye. I didn’t realize that no. 247, just north, was to house the Ravenite Social Club. I made my way down the sidewalk and noticed the cart:


I wondered what might be found at 734 East 6th Street, on the Lower East Side, or in what is now known as the East Village:


Buildings and carts, one bearing an address. The large cart suggests the rag trade. But look here:


Whoomp, there it is:


I doubt that this cart had any idea that it was featured in at least two — or more? — tax photographs.

Did you spot the woman at the window in the 6th Street photographs?

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