new york city

New York circa 1905. St. Bartholomew's Church parish house and clinic, East 42nd Street.

New York circa 1908. Presbyterian Building, Fifth Avenue and West 20th Street.

New York circa 1912. National City Bank, Wall Street at William Street. Also the Atlantic Building, and a sliver of U.S. Trust.

New York circa 1890s. Street view, 21-23 Pearl Street.

New York circa 1910. View down Wall Street to Trinity Church.

In this video called "New York City Leftover" we will look at some ruins possibly remaining from a previous civilization in New York City.

Enormous boulders like this didn’t get in the way of nearby development a century or so ago, however. The Museum of the City of New York has this 1903 photo in its collection of a similar rock thwarting the building plans of a row of houses on Riverside Drive between 93rd and 94th Streets.

Join me as we examine the construction of New York City's underground subways.