Central Park West, 1920
One hundred years ago today … Someone working for the Manhattan Borough President’s office snapped this photo of Central Park West between 93rd and 94th Street.
“Manhattan: Central Park West - 93rd Street.” Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. New York Public Library. (Link.)
The view is southward, looking downtown, and one can make out as far as 92nd Street. There, one could rent a nine-room furnished apartment at 320 CPW:
New York Tribune 22 Mar. 1920, p. 9.
It was a toney address (though the building was replaced eleven years later). So it is no surprise that the next time it is mentioned in a NYC paper is when Mrs, George Bernard, at that address, advertised for domestic help: a cook and a chambermaid, but only white people (i.e. “white help”) need apply.
New York Sun and Herald, 10 Oct. 1920, p. 83.