Buildings on Old Broadway - 1880
Old buildings on Broadway, looking south from Maiden Lane. In the right background is the spire of Trinity Church, at the head of Wall Street. Photograph about 1880 by American Studio. Source: Photographic views of New York City from the collections of the New York Public Library.
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East side Broadway, Liberty St. to John St., 1899.
The building with a clock tower is the old Mutual Life Building completed about 1873 and demolished before 1968. The United Bank Building (2 Wall Street), built in 1880, is in front of Trinity Church. Broadway is cluttered with utility poles and overhead wires, which were buried in the 1890s.
Maiden Lane
Looking north on Broadway.
Buildings on Old Broadway - 1880
