downtownmanhattan

The building in the background is the Singer Building, the third tallest building ever destroyed (behind the two World Trade Center towers, of course). It was also the tallest building in the world From 1908-1909.

the caption is wonderfully informative, if your eyes are up to the challenge.

I know its truly NYC in the early 20th century , but it reminds me of the illustrations of that time of what it was thought that the city would look like in the 21st century ala Jules Verne.

John Schrank lived here before his attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt

This is on Manhattan's Canal Street, near the corner of Elizabeth Street--currently part of New York's Chinatown. Many of the buildings on the right side of the photo remain intact.

My grandfather Gustav Jost and his father Leopold Jost and mother Ephrosine ran this bar and lunchroom, and probably the whole hotel in 1900. The 1900 census shows them living at this address with six boarders and two servants.

here is the Google Street View:

This is New York City's Trinity Church (Richard Upjohn, 1846). Excuse the self-linking, but here's a panorama showing the modern interior.

"Coronation" ceremony? In an Episcopal cathedral? I doubt it. Might have been an ordination or bishop's investiture.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Anglican, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Yes, stefkagoil, certainly not a coronation. Possibly a celebration ceremony for the coronation of George V, June 1911.