Goerck Street, east side, north of Delancey as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge in 1927. Goerck Street has vanished, buried beneath the Bernard Baruch Houses in the 1950's.
First planned out years later, it became a stretch of tenements and crowded streets that harbored two of the main evils of tenement life: Cholera outbreaks and gangs.
Lower East Side, 1927
PHOTO: Percy Loomis Sperr
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259 W. 42nd St. in 1979
PHOTO: Langdon Clay
West Shanghai (c. 1966-1983ish) and Back Date Store. This was Hyman Cohen's Carpel Books (1954) raided in 1963 for challenging obscenity laws, where Marty Hodas installed his 1st peep machine, 1st film license to enter bookstores in mid-1967. It later became his Show Center by 1986.
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Magee Hickey, now a PIX11 News reporter, interviewing people in front of the W. 72nd Street subway entrance in the 1980's, when she worked for ABC7NY News.
PHOTO: Stephen F. Harmon
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