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NYC 1938-2 | Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's… | Flickr 1920s Aesthetic, Photographie New York, Nyc Taxi, Nyc Photos, Nyc History, Vintage Nyc, New York Vintage, Tall Buildings, Nyc Street

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

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Another special example of the distinctive buildings built so often in the city: 46 W. 56th St., north side, east of Sixth Ave., ca. 1912. The building is still there and retains many of its features, with the added adornment of a Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the ground floor. This was the Goraud Building, named after Jackson Gouraud who bought it around 1908. It was one of several limestone mansions that had replaced the neighborhood's "comfortable rows of identical brownstones," according to the 1930s New York Apartment, 40s New York, 1920s Nyc Apartment, 19th Century New York, 1920s House Aesthetic, 1940s Apartment New York, 1920s Apartment Building, 1920 City Aesthetic, 1920s New York Apartment

Another special example of the distinctive buildings built so often in the city: 46 W. 56th St., north side, east of Sixth Ave., ca. 1912. The building is still there and retains many of its features, with the added adornment of a Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the ground floor. This was the Goraud Building, named after Jackson Gouraud who bought it around 1908. It was one of several limestone mansions that had replaced the neighborhood's "comfortable rows of identical brownstones," according to…

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