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Christopher Street, Greenwich Village

Beulah R. Bettersworth, Christopher Street, Greenwich Village
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8″ x 24 ¼”
1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Published at 8:03 pm on Monday 17 December 2007. Categories: Art New York.
Comments

Some canvasses just have that magical quality to them. This is one of them.

— The Monarchist 17 Dec 2007 10:09 pm

This is a wonderful print and brings back many memories from my time in NYC, thank you.

— PLK 17 Dec 2007 11:40 pm

It’s the corner shop which most attracts my gaze. No namby-pamby worries about cigars then.
Nice car too.
Can you tell us which church is depicted?

— L Gaylord Clark 18 Dec 2007 5:51 am

The church is that of St. Veronica, which is still there, and open, today.

The elevated train, however, is now gone but the entrance to ‘Hudson Tunnels’ is now the entry to the PATH train (Port Authority Trans-Hudson).

— Andrew Cusack 18 Dec 2007 7:59 am

“No namby-pamby worries about cigars then.”

True not then. But now all of Christopher Street is namby-pamby…just go there some day and ask to meet Dorothy…

— Mrs. Peperium 18 Dec 2007 11:45 am

St. Veronica’s is, alas, scheduled for reduction to a mission (and closure?) the last I heard.

— Stuart Chessman 19 Dec 2007 1:12 am

according to google, 1934 was the year of construction for the city’s first elevated freight track at this address.

— jim dicke 8 Mar 2009 1:07 am
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