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New York circa 1909. "Blackwell's Island Bridge, East River." Blackwell's Island is now Roosevelt Island, and today the span is called the Queensboro (or 59th Street) Bridge. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
This view is from Riverview Terrace off of Sutton Place (which I thought was just a gourmet food store until I started hunting down the spot to get the same perspective). Below is the same view from August of 2004.
The vessel is a two masted coasting schooner, not a fisherman.
The ship under sail appears to be a typical design of the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. (Google Images) Its a shame we can't view the stern well enough to see her name. I can imagine her here sailing into market with a hold full of cod.
Actually, that building isn't the one at 22 Vernon Blvd., it's the warden's home on Blackwell's Island:
See this page.
The building nearly under the bridge is still there. It's 22 Vernon and appears on Google Street View:
The clock tower is part of the Brewster Building in Queens Plaza. The building is still there but, sadly, the clock tower was removed in the 1950's.
Behind the terra cotta works it looks like a building with clock tower under construction. At first I thought Met Life but it doesn't look quite the same.
La-da-da-da-da - feelin' groovy!
Anybody know the history of the building that appears to be a mansion, under the bridge?
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