I spotted both of the photos below, this week, in Facebook groups I belong to. The top one appeared in Greenwich Village Grapevine, and is a depiction of East 8th Street just steps to the east of Fifth Avenue. The image was captured by one Andrea White in 2020.
The second photo, from Lower East Side: Back in the Days… is – ostensibly speaking – the same street (well, 8th Street, between Astor Place and Avenue Be, becomes St. Marks Place). This is East 8th Street between Avenues B and C circa 1981. There was no name credited to the photograph, unfortunately.
Two different strips of pavement along the same long street, divided by neighborhood, economics, sensibility and 39 years…
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