Remember Me to Herald Square: Thirty-fourth Street from River to River

Title:

Tenement building.

Format:

Digital images

Publisher:

Not applicable.

Date:

2010

Street Address:

37th Street and Tenth Avenue

Photographer/Artist:

Jeanette O'Keefe

Description:

This is one of the last tenement buildings left. Originally built to house New York’s poor, tenement buildings covered the West Side and other parts of the city. This building is next to an abandoned gas station as well as a billboard.

Subjects:

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.
Buildings--New York (State)--New York.
Thirty-seventh Street (New York, N.Y.)
Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Rights:

Collection:

Digital 34th Street

Contributing Institution:

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Tags:

Buildings, Midtown Manhattan, Tenement houses, Thirty-seventh Street