Before and after: old photos of new York city photographed from the same angle

Photoblog New York City Grid is devoted to the study of new York city. The authors of the site literally blocks and corners, frame by frame apart the city. Recently, the resource has published a series of photographs where I compared the old pictures of the XIX and XX century with a new shot from the same angle.

1900 and 2013. Mott street is the first street in new York, which began to settle the Chinese after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. At the time, it was the Irish district.

1984 and 2013. The new York town hall is an administrative building in Lower Manhattan, built in 1812.

1982 and 2013. Neighborhood Brooklyn Heights.

1982 and 2013. Brooklyn bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) — one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States.

1968 and 2013. Nassau street (Nassau Street) is a street in Lower Manhattan. Originally the street was called Kip street. But the current name was given in honor of the Dutch Prince Willem van Oranje-Nassau, who in 1689, king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1968 and 2013. Lower East Side, a neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan. Was traditionally an immigrant, working class neighbourhood.

1920 and 2013. Turtle Bay (Turtle Bay) is a neighborhood in the East Side. The name first appeared in the XVII century by the name of the Bay where dwelled turtles. The first half of the XX century from the Bay was only a small rock at the end of the 45 th street, now gone, and her.