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Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - 1903
Special Thanks to TigerRocket 1903 Edison Manufacturing Co. Filmed from a boat moving down river, the film depicts the Hudson (i.e., North River) shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan beginning around Fulton Street and extending south to Castle Garden in the Battery, once a fort and then an immigrant station, but at the time of this filming it was the City Aquarium. The film ends with a view of Battery Park. This film is a portrait of the city in transition. Between 1900 and 1930, the skyline would grow steadily into the uniquely familiar silhouette of downtown and midtown New York skyscrapers NOTE: This film viewed along with "Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River" constitutes a complete sweep around the southern tip of Manhattan from Fulton Street on the west side to the Brooklyn Bridge on the East River. Recommended reading: Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913 - Sarah Bradford Landau and Carl L. Condit A Maritime History of New York / New York City WPA Writers' Project - Going Coastal, Inc. [gmap zoom=15 |center=40.704196477554575,-74.01330471038818 |width=650px |height=350px |control=Small |type=Satellite]
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