WEST STREET, ROW IV
126-130 West Street, between Fulton and Dey Streets
MARCH 23, 1938. ABBOTT FILE 290

On the same day she photographed West Street between Dey and Cortlandt Streets, Abbott walked one block north and took the fourth and last of the West Street Row series. This fairly typical block of buildings dating from the 1880s was occupied by a hotel, two restaurants, a men's clothing store, an auto parts shop, and a gas station. The tip of the Singer Tower (1908) can be seen above the roofs of these buildings, and the Irving Trust Building (1931) at One Wall Street can be seen rising over the Esso station on the right. Abbott chose not to correct the distorted perspective at the left edge of the photograph, allowing the heavy cornice of the building at the corner of Fulton Street to fill the top left of the composition.

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