Evening Post Building on Broadway between 1875 and the 1880s
Buildings on east side Broadway. The Evening Post Building, at 208 Broadway, corner of Fulton Street. Broadway was main thoroughfare in New York City at the time, site of many early skyscrapers. Photograph by America illustrated, stereographs of New York City, taken between 1875 and the 1880s (source: NYPL).
Notice the overhead wires. They all went underground in the late 19th century.
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Evening Post Building on Broadway between 1875 and the 1880s