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Lower Manhattan and the East River circa 1901. "Riverfront from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
My work neighborhood. My ferry comes in right there, at the foot of Wall Street.
The "Richard Peck" served for a few years as the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Elisha Lee" connecting at Cape Charles, Virginia, with passenger trains from New York and Philadelphia across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe) and the Brooke Street Wharf in Norfolk. She operated in this service through a good part of WWII up until February 1953, when the ferry service was shut down.
Statue of Liberty is visible in the harbor.
Right of center, the high flagpole atop the Produce Exchange; further right and the same height is the southeastward slab extension of the building that's still on the SE corner of Broad and Exchange. The two-window-wide slab is in the center of the 1900 pic looking NW; it was removed maybe 15 years ago.
On the waterfront, all the way to the right are two buildings. One is four windows across and the other has a point along its roof line. Those buildings are still there, at 115 and 118 South Street. It looks like that entire block is still there.
And didn't end her relatively long life in flames:
http://www.ctinsider.com/opinion/article/Days-of-Yore-The-Long-Island-So...
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