#third avenue

[coolthingsguyslike]

[haikumaker]

St. Mark’s Place and Third Avenue, 1985

[gotankgo]

«1973-74: McAnn's Bar (692 Third Ave). On right is Ram Studios (694 Third Ave) with Howard Johnson's ice cream, shot in 1975.

Photographer Unknown»

as seen in Taxi Driver

[onceuponatown]

Bum who claimed to be Scotch comedian (get it?) at Third Avenue and 14th Street.

New York City, 1941.

Photographer: Marjory Collins (1912-1985)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Pawnshops like the Stuyvesant Curiosity Shop did good business during the Depression. This is Third Avenue near 10th St. in February, 1937.

In the distance you can see the sign for Sig Klein's Fat Men's Shop, shown below a year or two before.

Top photo: Berenice Abbott via the Guardian Bottom photo: Ben Shahn via Harvard Art Museums

[semioticapocalypse]

Sy Cattelson. Woman, Third Avenue El. 1948

[manchestergalore]

Recreation Hall, Trafford Park Village on Third Avenue

1910s

[vintagemanhattanskyline]

The new 32-story Chrysler Building East (Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist, 1952) at left, and the 77-story Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) en this view looking southwest from 44th Street and Third Avenue, in 1952. The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) and the 55-story Chanin Building (Sloan & Robertson, 1928) can be seen between two buildings, at background.

Photo: Ewing Galloway.

Source: "Around Manhattan Island. Cruise Guide Circle Line". New York. Circle Line, 1962.