{"id":41774,"date":"2020-08-30T05:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T02:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41774"},"modified":"2020-08-30T05:11:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T02:11:39","slug":"169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/30\/169\/","title":{"rendered":"169"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mapped cache of photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/1940s.nyc\/map\/photo\/nynyma_rec0040_3_00267_0044#17.5\/40.691636\/-73.993951\">New York City in 1939\/1940<\/a>, drawn from mundane tax-record photos of buildings.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"665\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/169clintoncol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/169clintoncol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41775\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears this is 169 Clinton Street. Though it&#8217;s difficult to be 110% sure as the buildings all look much the same. Also, both the site&#8217;s address-lookup and the 1939\/40 in-photo numbering appear to be astray in terms of matching with house numbers. While the corner location, door, windows, roof-line and adjacent windows all suggest it&#8217;s almost certainly 169, modern pictures show a large front door on the building immediately to the left side &mdash; a door that isn&#8217;t present here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1925-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1925-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11728\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft seen in front of 169. Possibly late spring 1925, judging by the leafy tree behind him. Evidently the exterior fire-escapes were added to the building in the 1930s. A city report on the local juvenile gangs stated there was almost no easy roof-access in Red Hook at that time, in contrast to Hell&#8217;s Kitchen. If there had been a fire Lovecraft would presumably have had to fling himself from the window, Dagon-style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mapped cache of photos of New York City in 1939\/1940, drawn from mundane tax-record photos of buildings. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/30\/169\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}