Here is my Pintrest board link :
https://www.pinterest.com/wanj839/garment-in-financial-district-nyc/
Close to midnight, people still can be seen on Broadway or Wall st, wheras nobody shows anywhere else in FiDi. In the same time, Upper districts of Manhattan are holding busy nightlife.
American Latvian Association. A wrong thing that americans usually do is never be contury specific. When I do research about ethnic groups in NY, many diagrams show mixed list of languages, continents, skin colors, and religions. After a little, I finally got a country specific list of ethnic groups that settled in FiDi(specifically in Battery Park City). They are “Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Latvian, and Irish”. Among these, I am attracted by these East European countries for their traditional clothing. Latvian clothing was my favourite.
This is how lower Manhattan looked like in the 19th century. I personally like this neighbourhood better the skyscrapers we see today. On the lower left corner is the Castle Clinton. It was built in 1808. “On August 1, 1855, Castle Clinton became the Emigrant Landing Depot, functioning as the New York State immigrant processing facility”
Battery Park City has been developed into a elite residential area, located on the left wing of FiDi. Battery Park was originally a place where artilleries were set to against the British fleet. In the early 20th century, the residential area became a depot where east european emigrants were gathered.
What is Financial District about? Money. You don’t usually see street arts in FiDi, especially the ones about touchy subjects or radical lines.
A map with info of FiDi
A women wearing folk dress in city
5 Beekman Street: Manhattan’s Financial District’s Hidden History
I feel 60s or 70s is interesting that the first immigrants generation after WWII were becoming the leader of the society. Some might keep their origins, some just blended into the explosive world.
Fast pace in FiDi
“Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #21. 1978. Gelatin silver print. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 (19.1 x 24.1 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Horace W. Goldsmith Fund through Robert B. Menschel One of the most often reproduced images of the series, this photograph is shot near 26 Broadway, originally the Standard Oil Building, in the Financial District (left). The modern glass building on the right at 2 Broadway was originally built in 1958-1959.”
A street clock on the corner of Brpadway and Maiden lane. It was origianlly set in 1899 as a advertising. It witnesses generations of people step on the oldest part of the longest road in New York City.
