A black-and-white photograph of 466-477 Grand Street on the Lower East Side. The photo features multiple three and four-story masonry buildings. To the left is Joseph Tolmach Drug Store, shown advertising bandages, elastic stockings, and trusses. To the right of the drug store is the three-story brick Neighborhood Playhouse, featuring an arched entrance, decorative window shutters, and molded wall decals and boldly framed performance advertisements. Nestled to the right of the playhouse is a thin, four-story building with a Luncheonette on the first level and a fire escape extending to the upper floors of apartment housing. Two pedestrians stand on the sidewalk outside the drug store, waiting at the street side, as a citizen is seated out front of the playhouse entrance. The foreground street is mostly empty, with a blur of a walking pedestrian and a Police Safety Zone sign, along with a survey marker labeled 366-28 M to indicate the position of the photograph survey. | Creator: New York (N.Y.). Department of Finance | Date: 1939-1941 | Source: New York City Municipal Archives | Rights: Public RecordsDownload Original File
