Thursday, December 16, 2010

An intersection that hasn't really remained nearly the same

Well, this one isn't exactly the perfect now and then... close enough... First, the south end of Cooper Square looking south on Bowery from 1900....



... and a shot from this past spring...



I recognize a few things, I think... You?

1900 photo by Robert L. Bracklow
From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York

4 comments:

ckdozi said...

another view
http://marsbot.tumblr.com/post/1695241910/im-reading-the-alienist-and-have-become

Mykola ( Mick) Dementiuk said...

Q for I Am Mars: What memorial statue was on the site? I read The Alienist years ago, what a great book...

Kurt said...

@Mick, "Peter Cooper" is engraved on the top of the monument but I can't make out the rest.

Lisa said...

The one thing I recognize is that the old black and white shot depicts a much cooler and far more interesting city than the color view.