Union Square and Fourth Avenue

Union Square and Fourth Avenue - about 1870

View of crowd in Union Square, looking north toward Forth Avenue (now Park Avenue South). taken between 1859 and 1893 (suggested about 1870 by the NYPL). The buildings on the right were expanded to six-stories before 1893. Everett House, on the corner of 4th Avenue, opened by 1853. Photo from stereoscopic views of parades, holidays and events in New York City, New York Public Library.