Oldest known photo of NY street scene

[P3D Alexa Smith <arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the back of the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune today there 
was this story by James Barron of the New York Times:  

"What clinched a 19th-century daguerreotype's place as the oldest known 
photograph of a New York City street scene was not the row houses in the 
foreground or the stately structure with the triangular cornice midway down the 
block, but the fact that the street was torn up.  The distinctive, 
diamond-shaped pattern of the new pavement led historians to conclude that the 
image had to have been made in 1850, three years before another New York street 
scene that was sold in 1994 at Christie's."
[snip]
"The street-paving scene arrived at Sotheby's, which expects it to bring $30,000
to $50,000 at auction October 2, as an undated, anonymous stereoscopic view."

Sure would be nice to take a look at it - any New Yorker's going to try?

Alexa



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