Wednesday, September 14, 2011

☞ REMEMBER: LaSalle and 125th Street c. 1953

A rare photo of 430-42 West 125th Street and the corner of LaSalle Street taken in 1953 shows what that intersection used to look like before the buildings in the area were razed for housing super blocks.  We have never seen an image from this view looking west and an interesting triangular commercial build apparently existed at the junction.  A small section of LaSalle with its original buildings still exist west of Broadway but the majority of the block further east consists of public housing buildings.

Archival phto from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) photo collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives/CUNY.  www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu
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  1. UlyssesSeptember 15, 2011 at 8:59 AM

    Someone pointed out that LaSalle and 125th Street are East to West Street and do not intersect but this assumption is incorrect. 125th Street is at a diagonal on the west side so it did intersect with LaSalle but that corner has since been removed from the grid.

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  2. tacony palmyraSeptember 15, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    And this is just 30 years after the streets were renamed: LaSalle used to be the tail end of 125th, and what is today the diagonal section of 125th used to be called "Manhattan Street."

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