This collection of images shows the South Street Seaport area before its restoration and rebuilding in the 1980s, when many of these buildings that were among the oldest in New York and an important record of the city’s maritime roots were in a rundown or dilapidated condition.

From: Evelyn Haynes -- The South Street Seaport
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Date
1971
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