Broadway and Post Office Building, New York

Broadway, looking north. The New York Post Office Building, on the right, was completed in 1880 and demolished in 1939. The old Astor House is on the left. The area is now part of the City Hall Park. The tallest buildings in the distance on Broadway are the Postal Telegraph Building and the Home Life Building. Photo by J.S. Johnston, 1894. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.