Broadway North From Leonard Street, NYC, 1890

A glimpse of New York City’s rapid growth in the 1890s is captured in this photograph of Broadway, looking uptown from Leonard Street. In this active street scene, throngs of pedestrians walk past buildings and storefronts on the sidewalks. A man is blurred as he runs across the road while another walks a horse as workers adjust streetcar rails with multiple modes of horse-drawn traffic in the distance. The numerous telephone poles would disappear by the end of the decade; telephone lines were moved mostly underground in NYC after many were downed in the blizzard of 1888. 
 
Format: Silver Gelatin Print
Size: 6.5 x 5.75 inches
Condition: Very Good