Avoid This Delancey Traffic Jam at All Costs

And here you thought traffic on Delancey was bad this morning? Check out this archival photo from around 1900, which illustrates the total clusterfuck of trolleys, motor cars, and pedestrians. The brick box Loews Delancey (corner of Suffolk) is visible off to the right; most of the tenement dwellings on the left were razed for SPURA development that’s only now getting serious attention.