Strip away Battery Park City on the left, the new World Trade Center and other the modern buildings on the right and you get the maritime version of Lower West Side. New York. 1912.

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In this era, hundreds of piers lined the Hudson River.
Many of the boats carried trans-shipped goods from the
massive Central Railroad of NJ and Lehigh RR train yards in Jersey City on the
other side of the Hudson.

Thousands of deals and money was exchanged every day here by the drivers of
early motorized trucks and owners of horse-cars, which transported whatever
they purchased to warehouses and retail stores in Manhattan.

WAVZ 13 , 2024-04-20 17:30:39

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