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Batavia Street may be visible in photographs that were not meant to document it. According to Forgotten NY, the short street ran two blocks between Roosevelt and James Streets, one block north of Cherry Street. The site says construction of the Al Smith Houses in 1948 erased Batavia and nearby streets, leaving only a short piece of James Street. For anyone trying to picture that older neighborhood, even a street glimpsed in the background could be useful.
Forgotten NY points to the NYC Municipal Archives tax photos as an unexpected way to look. The project aimed to photograph streets across the city, but streets also appear incidentally in views focused elsewhere. That makes the images worth examining for details a map cannot show. What, if anything, can the tax photos reveal about the corners where Batavia Street met Roosevelt and James?
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