sarahwrotethat: Financial District Scan of an undated, uncredited postcard I bought when I first moved to the city and never sent. From the absence of the Chase Building and bulky office blocks on Water Street, and with all those working piers, it must be from no later than the late 50s. Artists would have had lofts in the old buildings along Pearl Street; the El curled around the feet of the towers, cigarette smoke through the offices. I love how, by night, the markers of eras vanish between the lights, how recent and fast this feels. None of which occurred to me when I bought the card. I liked it because it looked like Starry Night. A study in scale
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sarahwrotethat:

Financial District

Scan of an undated, uncredited postcard I bought when I first moved to the city and never sent. From the absence of the Chase Building and bulky office blocks on Water Street, and with all those working piers, it must be from no later than the late 50s. Artists would have had lofts in the old buildings along Pearl Street; the El curled around the feet of the towers, cigarette smoke through the offices. I love how, by night, the markers of eras vanish between the lights, how recent and fast this feels.

None of which occurred to me when I bought the card. I liked it because it looked like Starry Night.

A study in scale

decoarchitecture: Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn by Berenice Abbott Lower Manhattan as seen from the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.  From “Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938,” available through the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. (See also the book of the same name.) Detail of this photo: Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dock Streets, looking southwest, Brooklyn. (May 22, 1936)  The Purchase Building at the other end of its life
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decoarchitecture:

Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn
by Berenice Abbott

Lower Manhattan as seen from the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

From “Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938,” available through the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. (See also the book of the same name.)

Detail of this photo:

Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dock Streets, looking southwest, Brooklyn. (May 22, 1936) 

The Purchase Building at the other end of its life

liquidnight: A.E. Schaff, Cleveland, Ohio Under Brooklyn Bridge From Pictorial Photography in America 1922
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liquidnight:

A.E. Schaff, Cleveland, Ohio

Under Brooklyn Bridge

From Pictorial Photography in America 1922

matthewtrevithick: untitled by Barry Yanowitz on Flickr.
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matthewtrevithick:

untitled by Barry Yanowitz on Flickr.

liquidnight: “New York—Completing a Great Work—Lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge” Wood engraving Frank Leslie’s Weekly, published 1883 [From the Library of Congress]
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liquidnight:

“New York—Completing a Great Work—Lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge”

Wood engraving

Frank Leslie’s Weekly, published 1883

[From the Library of Congress]

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