gaynornotification

Time flies. This day started out in 1913, and look where it's gone... :)

i like the way they dress up. formal and nice..!

Either that statue of Nathan Hale has been moved, or the area around NYC City Hall looks a lot different now: www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/lowermanhatt...

Another of these photos also has the wrong date, but says it is 1918.

rjones0856: Good eye! The statue of Hale was originally placed at the intersection of Broadway & Murray Street in the 1890's, but was moved to the lawn facing City Hall's entrance in 1999. Wystan: Thanks for the heads up on the date!

Can someone tell me what the Gaynor Notification means?

It seems to be part of the mayoral election campaign of 1913. The notification ceremonies took place on 3rd September 1913. William Gaynor, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaynor was nominated for mayor by a group of independent supporters after clashing with the Democrats over corruption in office. He died a few days after this on 10th September 1913. The C. F. M. of the placard will be Charles F Murphy, the boss of Tammany Hall.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Murphy

why are there so many shovels on the ground?

Interesting - thanks for the info.

LOC -- your date is wrong, should be 1913.

Wystan, Thanks for the heads up on the date. We will get that corrected when we update the record.

William Jay Gaynor had served a term as reform mayor of New York. Because the incorruptible Gaynor would not cooperate with the Tammany machine, Tammany refused to nominate him for a second term. So Gaynor was renominated by an independent group, and accepted their nomination. In this photo, the independents notify Gaynor of the nomination, just before he sailed to Europe on a vacation voyage. On September 10, exactly a week after this photo was taken, Gaynor died of a heart attack, in his deck chair aboard the steamship Baltic, 400 miles off the coast of Ireland.