☞ REMEMBER: Peace Shine circa 1939

A photo from 1939 shows what the blocks on Fifth Avenue between East 133rd and East 144th Street used to look like before they were torn down.  The shoe shine kiosk is attached to a larger prewar building but it appears that there used to be quite a few brownstones lining the avenue heading north. Larger super blocks of housing now replaces this view today but upper Fifth Avenue apparently was somewhat picturesque at one point in time.

Sid Grossman, Federal Art Project, Peace Shine 3 Cents, circa 1939 via the digital collection at the Museum of the City of New York