New york people

Here is one illustration from my NYC people series.

Broadway & 27th st, NYC

One of my favorite areas in Manhattan, it was first a large furniture district but then transformed to hotels, brothels and gambling halls as the heart of Vaudeville was just blocks away.

The building of the Manhattan Bridge.

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension). It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. The bridge was opened to traffic on December 31, 1909 and was designed by Leon Moisseiff,[1] who later designed the infamous original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that opened and collapsed in 1940. It has four vehicle lanes on the upper level (split between two roadways). The lower level has three lanes, four subway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The upper level, originally used for streetcars, has two lanes in each direction, and the lower level is one-way and has three lanes in peak direction. It once carried New York State Route 27 and later was planned to carry Interstate 478. No tolls are charged for motor vehicles to use the Manhattan Bridge.

The New York World Building

Back in the 1890s, around city hall, there was a large concentration of news paper buildings. This one is my fav.