Stuyvesant Street from Third Ave. crossing E. 9th and E. 10th Streets toward Second Avenue, 1856. St. Marks Church (built 1799) still stands, so do several houses on the left side of Stuyvesant St, which now dead-ends into Second and a triangular park in front of the church. The other church (east side of Second Ave.) is now Urban Outfitters. In the lower right you can see where St. Marks Books is located (the two story corner house with a grocery sign); around the corner to the right is the sliver of a block where Panya bakery and the upstairs bar Angel’s Share are now. (via EV Transitions)
This was originally the driveway up to the Stuyvesant family mansion near 16th and 1st and it was oriented (not sure how precisely) along true east-west instead of the later Manhattan grid.
NYC History? Auto reblog.
