The original Harlem Salvation Army building stood at number 157 East 125th Street up into the late 1990's when the majority of the north side of the street (from Lexington to Third Avenue) would be razed for a new commercial building. The top photo taken circa 1934 shows the building with its original mansard roof which it would have been lost in the following decades. The Salvation Army would outgrow the original space and construct a bunker-like corner building on Third and 125th Street sometimes in the latter half of the 20th century. The rest of this entire block was pretty much abandoned and left to deteriorate until the new construction project stepped in. The lower photo shows the same side of the street today with the new building on the site. Archival photo courtesy NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses
The original Harlem Salvation Army building stood at number 157 East 125th Street up into the late 1990's when the majority of the north side of the street (from Lexington to Third Avenue) would be razed for a new commercial building. The top photo taken circa 1934 shows the building with its original mansard roof which it would have been lost in the following decades. The Salvation Army would outgrow the original space and construct a bunker-like corner building on Third and 125th Street sometimes in the latter half of the 20th century. The rest of this entire block was pretty much abandoned and left to deteriorate until the new construction project stepped in. The lower photo shows the same side of the street today with the new building on the site. Archival photo courtesy NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses
I remember around 1962 a girl jumped from the Salvation Army building...the Firemen caught her on one of those round type of mats?
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