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Posted on 03/25/2009 7:04:08 PM PDT by neverdem
A daguerreotype of what really can be called "Old Broadway" — showing the famous New York City thoroughfare as the 1840s country road it once was — is going up for sale at Sotheby's auction house.
In the early to mid-19th century, between the American Revolution and the Starbucks revolution, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was open countryside, with large estates, white picket fences and wagons trundling along a rutted road already known as Broadway.
Photographic evidence of that era is scant, as most studios offering the newfangled daguerreotypes were located several miles away at the island's populated lower end and focused, literally, on that area. But one rural scene, recently discovered in New England, is going up for sale at Sotheby's on Monday. It's believed to date to 1848...
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No one knows it, although some may falsely believe it. There are free-standing single-family homes in Inwood. There are plenty of single family townhouses all over the island.
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New headline: In effort to save city, Mayor Bloomberg puts NYC up for auction.
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