Lower Manhattan Frame Color:Brown It is one of the

It is one of the oldest

A few months after this photo was taken by the Times photographer Robert Walker

Mayor Robert Wagner (left) and Robert E

History would show that 1937 marked the last great season for Lou Gehrig (left)

The hospital was part of Rockefeller Institute

Lower Manhattan Frame Color:Brown It is one of theThis aerial image captures lower Manhattan when the tip of the island was scored with piers and dotted with old buildings. The area, however, was on the eve of evolution. "Much of lower Manhattan where New York was born and began the expansion that has made it the nation's largest and wealthiest city, will be dramatically transformed with projects now under construction or planned are completed," The Times wrote April 17, 1963. This photo was