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Looks like they are traveling up Broadway. Trinity Church (Episcopal) is on the right.

The Empire building was built on the site of the Arcade Blg., where on December 4th, 1891 Henry L. Norcross ,a Boston broker entered the office of Russell Sage the multimillionare moneylender demanding a huge sum of money,threatening to blow everyone up. Sage pushed his $20 a week clerk named Laidlaw at the extortionist and made a dash for the door. Norcross dropped the ten lbs. of dynamite , blowing himself up, killing a bystander and injuring several others. Laidlaw sued Sage, won a $40,000 judgement after a lengthy court battle. However, Sage appealed the decision against him. In the end Laidlaw received nothing.

This image is part of the Indicommons.org tribute to New York City on its *400th* anniversary.

You can see the shock in his face! New York traffic!

This same type of shot was done for Ralph Kramden and the HoneyMooners Show....with Jackie Gleason playing the part of a bus driver on that famous tv show that took place in Bensonhurst...NYC...you see Ralph hanging out of the bus..just like this photo........

I like how the photographer had included the street signs in the frame. Those signs must have looked very exotic...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called VINTAGE COMMERCIAL AND MUNICIPAL VEHICLES, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

If I remember correctly, the message on the top of the bus was, "Ride the Surface Way".

Videoal, you are correct!

That's a pretty cool picture of the bus to New York.