Friday, April 5, 2013

☞ REMEMBER: LaSalle & Broadway c. 1905


A photo of Manhattanville from 1905 shows a view of LaSalle Street from Claremont Avenue looking east. One can still see the elevated subway track today on Broadway but the entire next block was razed and replaced by public housing buildings by the mid 20th Century since this was thought a better housing alternative at the time.

 Archival image courtesy the digital collection at NYPL
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  1. AnonymousApril 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM

    The towers are two different housing projects. On the left is Grant Houses. On the right is Morningside Gardens, a middle income co-op. Thurgood Marshall once lived there; it was one of the first federally funded housing complexes to allow mixed race families to move in.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 1:35 PM

    Memories. Thanks for these pictures, especially the earlier one 1905. I can see where I used to live & play 60 years ago. Between 1943, & 1956, I lived at 64 LaSalle St., 5th floor, in a 4 room rear apt., at the top of stairway, with 10 family members & 2 dogs. 3 apts on each floor, maybe 4 on 1st. floor.. Living there were families, Johnson, McCants, May, McIntosh, Hunter, Taylor,Whittington, all I can remember for now. Not many children in the building. Anyway the block was lively. In 1954, (approx) we moved to 108 LaSalle, right at the corner. Many of our 2nd fl windows faced Broadway. As you can see, the IRT train #1 (or 9), passed right by our window, going to the uptown side of the 125th St. station on Broadway. Then in 1955 we had to move to make way for the co-op, Morningside Gardens. We moved to 537 W. 123rd st., then to the South Bronx 6/1956. The moves to us children were heartbreaking. Our parents did what they were forced to do. The Bronx was ok, until the "era of the fires" started. By this time we were grown and moving out to other areas. Thanks again for the pictures. I went to the NYLDC to see more of LaSalle St.

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