Message forwarded from [email protected] My Irish ancestors, the McGoverns, emigrated to NYC, arriving on the ship Nestorian, on March 9, 1849. This was 6 years before Castle Garden opened and they would have landed at any one of several piers along the East River. Using the city directory I found them living at 125 Roosevelt Street in 1849. They lived there until 1856. Finding a photo of their first home in America seemed like an impossible dream after I found out the area was torn down in the 1940's and replaced with housing projects. Today the Al Smith Housing project sets where my ancestors home once was. Last March I took a trip to NYC, my first trip in about 25 years to NYC. I spent about a half day at the NY Public Library on 42nd Street and my dream of one day seeing a photo of my ancestors home came true. I found a photo in the libraries "Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's". One year later the library has now digitalised the collection. If you have ancestors that lived in NYC this may be your chance to find their first home in America. I am placing a link below to the collection: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all& col_id=219 Type in the name of the street your ancestor lived on (I found out you get better hits by putting the name in quotes) in the search box and you may find alot of photos. Putting the street address in does not work. Here is one of the photos of my ancestors first home: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1& strucID=409722&imageID=719921F&word=%22roosevelt%20street%22&s=1¬word=&d=&c=219& f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=45&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=9# After going to the link, click on the image to get a closer look. The photo was taken of the intersection of Front and Roosevelt Street. Going up Roosevelt Street on the left is a sloped roof 4 story building. This was a boarding house and tenament building. it was also my McGovern ancestors first home. Not the nicest neighborhood or home, not some place I would want my family to live, but still it was my ancestors home and part of my family history. Here is a better photo: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1& strucID=412864&imageID=723061F&word=%22roosevelt%20street%22&s=1¬word=&d=&c=219& f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=45&num=24&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=25# Both photos were taken in the 1920's before the area was torn down. For my relatives: Type in "Roosevelt Street" and check out some of the photos of the neighbor. It is interesting. Don McGovern
Hello Don, I have found photos to within 2 addresses at this site but not the exact ones I am looking for. Have you checked the Tax Photos from the NYC Records Dept ??? They were taken between 1939 & 1941. Their URL is : http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/records/html/taxphotos/home.shtml If I knew that area was still intact for the photo collection I'd be happy to give them my money. I've spent a lot of money on dead ends at the Records Dept. My ancestors lived on Madison St. around Jackson, Montgomery & Gouvernour. I had others on Water St. and on Monroe. Do you know if the area was redeveloped after 1941 (after the tax photos were taken) or possibly before ??? Here is the URL for the photo of my Family's Neighborhood on NY Digitalgallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=41 1352&imageID=721550F&word=madison%20street&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lFie ld=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=24&imgs=12&total=684&pos=29 The photo is of 378-382 Madison, and my people were at 374 Madison. So close yet so far... Your neighborhood looked kinda UPTOWN compared to mine. Best wishes. Frank McCullough > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:55:34 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Fwd: Photos of Ancestors Home - Lower East Side NYC > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:55:31 -0700 > > Message forwarded from [email protected] > > My Irish ancestors, the McGoverns, emigrated to NYC, arriving on the ship > Nestorian, on March 9, 1849. This was 6 years before Castle Garden opened and > they would have landed at any one of several piers along the East River. Using > the city directory I found them living at 125 Roosevelt Street in 1849. They > lived there until 1856. > > Finding a photo of their first home in America seemed like an impossible > dream after I found out the area was torn down in the 1940's and replaced with > housing projects. Today the Al Smith Housing project sets where my ancestors > home once was. Last March I took a trip to NYC, my first trip in about 25 > years > to NYC. I spent about a half day at the NY Public Library on 42nd Street and > my dream of one day seeing a photo of my ancestors home came true. I found a > photo in the libraries "Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's". > One > year later the library has now digitalised the collection. > > If you have ancestors that lived in NYC this may be your chance to find their > first home in America. I am placing a link below to the collection: > > http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all& > col_id=219 > > Type in the name of the street your ancestor lived on (I found out you get > better hits by putting the name in quotes) in the search box and you may find > alot of photos. Putting the street address in does not work. > > Here is one of the photos of my ancestors first home: > > http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1& > strucID=409722&imageID=719921F&word=%22roosevelt%20street%22&s=1¬word=&d=&c > =219& > f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=45&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=9# > > After going to the link, click on the image to get a closer look. The photo > was taken of the intersection of Front and Roosevelt Street. Going up > Roosevelt > Street on the left is a sloped roof 4 story building. This was a boarding > house and tenament building. it was also my McGovern ancestors first home. Not > the nicest neighborhood or home, not some place I would want my family to > live, > but still it was my ancestors home and part of my family history. > > Here is a better photo: > > http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1& > strucID=412864&imageID=723061F&word=%22roosevelt%20street%22&s=1¬word=&d=&c > =219& > f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=45&num=24&imgs=12&pNum=&pos= 25> # > > Both photos were taken in the 1920's before the area was torn down. > > For my relatives: Type in "Roosevelt Street" and check out some of the photos > of the neighbor. It is interesting. > > Don McGovern > > > > > > ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== > If you will be away for a few days, please unsub from the list to keep > yourself from bouncing off. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >