State Street, Battery Park (Scan from June 1981)

State Street, Battery Park (Scan from June 1981)

In the 1981 picture the brown building between the two skyscrapers is the 23 storey Seaman’s Church Institute which was completed in 1969. The 2024 Google Earth shows the building was replaced by a 42 storey skyscraper in 1988.

The small building dwarfed by the three skyscrapers in the 2024 Google Earth view is the Church of the Rosary and the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, originally Watson House. Dating from 1793. On the original picture it is obscured by trees.

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