Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River 1903

1903 Edison Manufacturing Co. Camera: Wallace McCutcheon Filmed from a boat moving down river, the film depicts the Hudson (i.e., North River) shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan beginning around Fulton Street and extending south to Castle Clinton in the Battery. The first visible land mark is the Park Row Building in the distance at 0:24. St. Paul’s Church 1:11. Pennsylvania Railroad 1:26. The fire boat dock for Engine Company 57, established in February of 1891, is seen at 2:57. The fire