Steelworker, Beekman Street

80 and 82 Beekman Street

St. George Building, Beekman Street

The north side of Beekman Street between William and Nassau Streets

Dominick and a pay loader inside 82 Beekman Street

View south on Cliff Street at its intersection with Beekman

View through the rear wall, 89 Beekman Street

The Brooklyn Bridge site seen from the roof of the Beekman Hospital. Gold Street is in the foreground and Beekman Street on the right. The area was known as the leather district since the Civil War.

The west side of Gold Street between Ann and Beekman Streets. The metal front of this type of building was ordered in sections from catalogs. An identical building, only a section less in length, stood on the corner of Beekman and Pearl Streets

Beekman Street, Sunday morning; Ginco, Tonto, Frankie, John Jr., and Nelson, after exploring the buildings

Beekman Street subbasement. The demolition contract requires that the building be brought down to street level. Basements and tunnels are filled in and left buried beneath vacant lots

A burner is lifted to cut the bolts in the cast-iron front of 82 Beekman Street. The cast iron is then smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer.

Huey and his crew inside 81 Beekman Street. An elevator is demolished. The heavy sandstone window blocks must be dropped, like everything else, inside the building and not onto the street.

The St. George building stood at the northwest corner of Beekman and Cliff Streets. Built as a warehouse in 1870, it retained the name of a series of churches that had stood on the spot since the mid-18th century