Old Skyscrapers in City Hall Park

View of City Hall Park looking south, with some of the early skyscrapers in New York. City Hall Park is bounded by Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street, in the Civic Center, Manhattan. Photo copyrighted by American Studio, 1919. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Woolworth Building, completed in 1913, is in the background. The old Post Office building was demolished in 1939. Each building in this area has a story worth telling.