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••• “A bicyclist was clinging to life Friday after he was hit by a crane truck in Tribeca, officials said. The cyclist, who police describe as a man in his 50s, was hit at the intersection of Hudson and Laight just after 6:40 p.m.” —Daily News
••• Fitness instructor Taryn Toomey’s “tips on how to find zen and stay in shape—or at least, not fall prey to the madness—in between all the shows (or whenever).” Also: “Later this month, Toomey will debut a fine jewelry line and open an outpost in Los Angeles.” —T Magazine
••• Tribeca Trib has a rendering of City Vineyard, as well as the menu, which is along the lines of what you’d find at City Winery.
••• The Old New York Page on Facebook featured this photo of “Ridley’s Candies, established 1806. Chambers and Hudson Streets, 1896. Photo by Robert L. Bracklow.” The photo is credited to Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York, which says the photo is in the Robert L. Bracklow Collection at the New York Historical Society. UPDATE: See the comments for more on Ridley’s, this photo, and the second photo, which I just added.
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If the elevated tracks run N/S, we’re looking west, & that’s the McDonald’s, right?
The McDonald’s is at Greenwich, not Hudson. And yet the Chambers/Hudson intersection doesn’t seem to fit the photo. Google dredged up a copy of The Edison Monthly, which says that after Ridley’s moved to Beach and Washington, “The Old Chambers Street Candy Manufactury [was] torn down to make way for a modern office building.” And there was a photo of the Chambers/Hudson building, which I’ve added to the post above.
https://books.google.com/books?id=JBLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=ridley%27s+candies+greenwich&source=bl&ots=Md15egrRVg&sig=dy7Naeg0eL7aGhYq2YnBRKRA68c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4yZqh6fLKAhVDdD4KHZeLAT4Q6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=ridley%27s%20candies%20greenwich&f=false
The top pic looks like Acapella restaurant from approximately the 1/9 stop on West Broadway and Chambers, and the bottom one (although missing the El, so not sure obviously) looks like a south-west view from approximately above Ballon Saloon. Those standing horses look more or less on West Broadway on the east side of Bogardus Plaza.
The building to the west (left) of Ridley is 143 Chambers. Notice the columns, the vertical quoins at the corners, and particularly the varying styles of stone frames around the windows of the upper floors.
The street at the right is Hudson facing north. Several of the buildings on the east side at Duane and Reade Sts are still in existence and recognizable if you zoom in.
James is 100% correct. If you Google 143 Chambers Street and play with the street view you can just about line up the exact angle of the original photo and the buildings on the far right are still there. What is amusing to me is the location of the stairs going up to the El in the old photo is just about the exact location now of the stairs going down to the subway.
You are looking North up Hudson. The small building is where One Hudson stands today. If you look up Hudson the first building on the right is 16 Hudson where HSBC is now. They added a floor to that building in later years. 16 Hudson is actually 4 building combined into one co-op. The end of those buildings (2nd one) is where Brushstroke is located. You see a 3rd building jutting out a bit, that is Duane and Hudson where Bouley’s is now.
The third is old Mohawk Electric building.