a Tuesday diversion / vintage Manhattan photos 1941, 1942

driving me crazy, and you?
Don’t click here if you don’t have a few minutes, because you will be late to your next appointment or call.

It is a collection of 63 color photographs taken by a visiting businessman, nearly all of lower Manhattan and most from 1941 and 1942. Pure catnip, for those so inclined. Personaly, I will try to figure out exactly where Peter Minuit Square was (it can’t still be there, with a different name, can it?), though I truly despair of figuring out the one photo blog-appropriate to Manhattan Loft Guy.

If anyone can clue me in on Photo #41 ("a corner on west Canal St. [1942]") I will be in your debt. If it really is west Canal, it is either of Soho (looking north) or Tribeca (looking south), but I have played around a bit with Google Street View, looking (especially) for that 5-story red-brick buidling on the left, without success (other than to make the time pass). I was thinking Mercer Street, looking to Howard, but the buildings don’t fit. Or way west, looking south into Tribeca, but the current buildings are too tall (and similarly old).

You’d think that that building would still be there, 70 years later, but I can’t find it.

Note to self: walk Canal Street! (on a cooler day)

The hat tip goes to The Miller on Twitter (@jonathanmiller).

© Sandy Mattingly 2011