norfolk street archives

A crowd gathers on the south side of Houston street just off Norfolk Street in 1905 in front of “Little Hungary” — waiting for Teddy Roosevelt.

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Flatiron Rising, 1902 (via)

It was a bit of a walk — but surely worth it.

(via lostsplendor)

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Meet Ms. Selma Bondi, one of the four daughters of Dr. Jonas Bondi, the rabbi installed in 1858 by congregation Anshi Chesed in our building.   This photo shows her in 1876, the year she married Isaac Mayer Wise, the leading reform rabbi and newspaper editor from Cincinnati, who fell in love with Ms. Bondi while inspecting her late father’s library. (from the collection of the American Jewish Archives)

Just in time for the High Holidays, our new neighbors arrived.

(Shana Tova card from the 1920s.)

Labor shows its power in 1887 on Union Square. (courtesy of NYPL)

“A Holiday Crowd Bound for Coney Island, Ulmer Park and Bath Beach” in Zeisloft’s “The New Metropolis” (1899)

It’s surely not a beach crowd; gamblers, bookmakers and gentlemen on their way to the race tracks; an easy ride from New York’s East Side.