In 1905, the Upper West Side was raw. The subway had opened one year earlier. Elevators were rising. The brownstones were new construction. People were moving here because this was where New York was going. For Hassam, this 78th street is what progress looked like. You look at it now and see a slower world. He looked at it and saw everything arriving at once. Modernity is just a concept.
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