Museum of the City of New York

These photographs by Edmund V. Gillon (1929-2008) are a recent addition to the Museum's Photography collection. Gillon is best known for more than a dozen books on New York City for the Dover Publishing Company. The bulk of the collection is architectural in nature, portraying the city’s historic districts, landmarks, architectural ornamentation, and civic sculpture. His photographs bring to life not only the countless readily apparent changes that have taken place in the city’s urban landscape over the past several decades, but also the many subtle changes that transformed neighborhoods such as SoHo, Tribeca, and Dumbo as they transitioned, building by building, from gritty wastelands into the vibrant urban oases they have become.

**[The Old Control House, Bowling Green subway station.]**

**["Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life" wall mural, 232 East Broadway.]**

**[East Side Hebrew Institute and Church of St. Brigid.]**

**[St. James School, 37 St. James Place.]**

**[Hotel Montague, 103-105 Montague Street.]**

**["East-West Gate" stainless steel sculpture.]**
*The sculpture is also called "Disk and Slab".*

**[Lyceum Theater, 149-157 West 45th Street.]**

**[Looking east on Broadway from Bedford Avenue and South 6th Street.]**

**[Excelsior Power Company Building.]**
*Converted to an apartment building in 1979.*

**[A. Brym Shoe Repairing, 74 East 7th Street.]**

**[Looking north from beneath the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society walkway to the Brooklyn Bridge.]**

**[Looking east toward the corner of Old Fulton and Water Streets from the edge of the East River.]**
*From left to right: Waterfront Restaurant (originally Franklin House hotel), Eagle Warehouse & Storage...*

**[Long Island Safe Deposit Company building and Bankside Boon Dock bar and restaurant.]**

**[Looking west across the grounds of the Empire Stores, 53-83 Water Street.]**

**[33-35 Grand Street.]**
*Formerly Manufacturers Trust Company, originally North Side Bank.*

**[Advertising Club of New York, 23 Park Avenue.]**
*Converted to apartments in 1977.*

**[Children playing in water from fire hydrant.]**

**[Men leaving McSorley's Old Ale House, 15 East 7th Street.]**

**[Labor College, 130 East 25th Street.]**
*Originally B.W. Mayer Building, now Friends House.*

**[29th Street façade of the Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway.]**
*Printed from an earlier photograph taken around 1974.*

**[The Cloisters, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive.]**

**[Bulldog emblem on the American Express Horse Stables, Hubert Street façade.]**
*Converted to apartments in 2008.*

**[St. Michael's Russian Catholic Byzantine Church, 266 Mulberry Street.]**
*Formerly St. Michael's Chapel, originally St. Patrick's chancery office. Adjacent to St. Patrick's Old...*

**[View through "Atlas" in Rockefeller Center to St. Patrick's Cathedral.]**

**[Fiss, Doerr & Carroll auction mart, 147 East 24th Street.]**
*Demolished for Baruch College's William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus, built 2000.*

**[172-176 Norfolk Street.]**
*Now the Angel Orensanz Foundation. Originally Congregation Anshe Chesed, onetime Ohab Zedek, later Anshe...*

**[Superior Printing Ink Co. in the Puck Building.]**

**[19th Precinct station house (originally 25th Precinct), NYPD, 153 East 67th Street.]**

**[Pinking Shears Corporation building, 102 Prince Street.]**

**[Donald Judd House and Museum, 101 Spring Street.]**

**[Engine Company No. 39 and Ladder Company No. 16 and Park East Synagogue.]**

**[Thomas Hunter Hall, Hunter College.]**

**[Looking north from Park Avenue and 41st Street to the Pan Am Building.]**

**[Engine Company No. 39, Ladder Company No. 16 at 157 East 67th Street.]**

**[Looking west on East 35th Street past Lexington Avenue.]**

**[Looking over the East River from Roosevelt Island to Queens.]**

**[Silver Center for Arts and Science, Hemmerdinger Hall.]**
*Previously NYU Law School, originally Washington Square College.*

**[Garibaldi monument in Washington Square.]**

**[Looking across Seventh Avenue South to the intersection of Bleecker and Barrow Streets.]**

**[Side entrance to First Unitarian Church.]**
*Also known as the Church of the Saviour.*

**[Looking north on Clinton Street from Schermerhorn Street to Packer Collegiate Institute Middle School.]**

**[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue.]**

**[Looking north on Monroe Place toward Cadman Towers at 101 Clark Street.]**

**[Looking south on Clinton Street from Schermerhorn Street.]**

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