Andreas Feininger (1906 – 1999), Broad Street, New York, 1940.
Tag: nyc
c. 1950
The taxi cabs of this era just knock me out. Edge of Doom, showing at the Astor Theater was indeed released in 1950, and it looks like a sign for Mister Roberts with Henry Fonda–the original Broadway play at the Alvin Theater–is peeking around the corner. Fonda won a Tony Award in the play, which ran for 1157 performances starting in 1948. Decades later I saw The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones at the Alvin, my dad having scored tickets through his job at the Transit Authority (he was a subway motorman) for having donated blood.
The fabled City Hall station of the New York City subway system. Closed to the public since 1945, the station is accessible only by special tours offered by the New York Transit Museum. Undated photo by Marc Hermann.
View looking east from West Street along Fulton Street to the Woolworth Building, New York City, 1913.
Robert Bracklow
Noir By Night 