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Pre-WTC: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 2:19am.
New York, 1908. Hudson Terminal Buildings at 30-50 Church Street showing cemetery and construction of elevated railway. View full size. Irving Underhill photo. The complex was razed in 1971 to make way for 5 World Trade Center.
You can see just a glimspe
Submitted by Deschanel on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 6:21pm.
You can see just a glimspe of the fabled and demolished Singer Tower in the upper left corner.. love that building. Demolished 1967.
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Look at the…
Submitted by bellhalla on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 12:30pm.
…shapes of those buildings! Underhill tilted the lens plane to get the verticals of all the buildings actually vertical, but look how distorted it is on the left.
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