A view of lower Manhattan from June 17, 1937. The demarcation lines between neighborhoods are very clear: the towers of the financial district are on the upper left; the Municipal Building and three adjacent courthouses to its right (in the center) mark the civic center; the cluster of smaller towers to the left of the civic center, hugging the diagonal of Park Row, is Printing House Square and housed a half-dozen newspapers; the tenements of Chinatown and the Lower East Side run along the bottom, and the low-rise industrial neighborhood of the Lower West Side (now Tribeca) is at the top middle and top right. Those clear-cut uses and sharp boundaries have blurred over time, not least because of the construction of tall buildings all over.
