Rainy day street photo: East 119th Street and 2nd Avenue, looking toward the 3rd Avenue elevated. May 11, 1919
Photo source: NYPL Digital Gallery
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I lived on 108th street between 2nd and 3rd till I was 12. Love all the memories.I went to St. Ann’s does anyone have any pics
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Josephine, my name is Jack and I went to St. Ann’s also in the 50s. Go on to goggle and type in 310 east 110th street and up comes the picture.
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I lived on 119 between 1st and 2nd and this is not what it looked like in 1960.
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Ok, I’ve done my homework on these photos. After driving down East 119th Street, I realized that the vintage photos from the link I posted, had the wrong location. I suspected that it was between 2nd and 3rd, not 1st and 2nd, and I was right. So now it is up to me to correctly map the location and dates of these 2 photos. Having researched these photos to their original database, the nypl digital archives, the year for both of these photos is 1919. I will correctly state the exact dates on the photos that I posted. Thanks for your input, Cathy. I enjoyed doing the detective work!
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Reblogged this on Italian Harlem and commented:
East 119th Street, b/w 2nd and 3rd Avenue. May 11th 1919.
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