Broadway, East Side. Hudson Building to Exchange Place - 1899
Illustration shows buildings on the east side of Broadway, from Hudson Building (on the right) to Exchange Place. The Exchange Court Building (on the left), was completed in 1898. The Tower Building (50 Broadway), completed in 1889, was the first building to use a steel skeleton structure.
From A Pictorial Description of Broadway, published in 1899 by the Mail & Express Company, publisher of the Evening Mail. Source: The New York Public Library.
The Exchange Place was originally a path leading to a small redoubt connected with the city fortifications and, during the English colonial times, was called "Oyster Patsy Alley".
3 - Broadway, from Produce Exchange, in Bowling Green, to Standard Oil Building -1899.
4 - Broadway, west side. Morris Street to Exchange Alley - 1899.
Broadway, East Side. Hudson Building to Exchange Place - 1899
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