FINE ANTIQUE MODERN NEW YORK CITYSCAPE STREET ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING VINTAGE 1960

Description: FANTASTIC VINTAGE MODERN ABSTRACT MIX MEDIA OIL PAINTING ON BOARD DEPICTING CANAL STREET, A HISTORIC LANDMARK LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK. THIS WORK IS COMPRISED OF BOLD AND EXPRESSIVE BRUSHSTROKES, CREATING A DYNAMIC CITYSCAPE DOMINATED BY A MAZE OF COLORFUL INTERSECTING LINES AND SHAPES. AT THE CENTER OF THE COMPOSITION, A FIGURE IN A STRIKING RED SHIRT RIDES A BICYCLE WHILE OTHER FIGURES WALK THROUGH AN ARCHWAY. THE USE OF VIBRANT COLORS AND ABSTRACT FORMS CONVEYS THE URBAN EXPERIENCE IN AN ENGAGING WAY, INVITING VIEWERS TO IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN THE DYNAMIC CITY LIFE OF DOWNTOWN NEW YORK. SIMPLY AMAZING. THIS WORK APPEARS TO BE UNSIGNED. IT DATES AROUND THE 1960s. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS: 23” H x 40” W Canal Street is a major street in the lower part of Manhattan, which runs from East Broadway to West Street and through the neighborhood of Chinatown, forming the southern borders of SoHo, Little Italy, and the northern of Tribeca. Today, Canal Street is a bustling and lively commercial area, crowded with street vendors and open storefronts, where you can find items such as perfumes, hardware, and purses at low prices (some are notoriously counterfeit). However, Canal Street has not always been like that. The name of the street comes from the fact that by 1800 one of New York City’s sources of freshwater called Collect Pond, got polluted with sewage, which caused the creation of swamps and marshes that limited the city’s growth potential. By 1800, Collect Pond, one of New York City's few natural sources of fresh water, had become completely polluted with sewage and run-off from the tanneries, breweries, and other workshops and factories around it. Run-off from the pond, including one "sluggish stream" that traveled part of the route of the future Canal Street, fed nearby swamps and marshes which prevented the city from continuing its northward growth. To deal with this, the city's Common Council ordered that the swamps be drained and, in 1803, that the pond itself be filled in. A drain was built continuing the path of the "sluggish stream" to the Hudson River, which redirected the underground springs that watered the swamps. The pond was successfully drained by 1813 or 1815. The area was developed, but the springs remained and caused the "dry" land to be boggy and uneven. The Common Council then authorized a canal, in the form of a 40-foot wide, 8-foot deep ditch, which would continue carrying off the excess water. Because it was not efficient and did not have sufficient flow, it, too, became an open sewer. The city covered it over in 1819, but as it had no air traps, the covered canal became a stinking covered sewer. Canal Street was completed in 1820, following the path of the covered canal and named for it. The historic townhouses and newer tenements that had been built along Canal Street quickly fell into disrepair, and the eastern stretch of Canal Street came within the ambit of the notorious Five Points slum as property values and living conditions plummeted. Early in the 20th century, the jewelry trade centered on the corner of Canal Street and Bowery, but moved mid-century to the modern Diamond District on 47th Street. In the 1920s, the Citizens Savings Bank built a notable domed headquarters at the intersection's southwest corner[6] which remains a local landmark. The portion of Canal Street around Sixth Avenue was New York's principal market for electronics parts for a quarter-century after the closing of Radio Row to make way for the building of the World Trade Center. Canal Street is a bustling commercial district, crowded with comparatively low-rent open storefronts, street vendors to the west; and banks and jewelry shops to the east. For a generation after World War II, the former segment hosted many stores selling exotic high-tech components to would-be inventors and engineers. Canal Street is also the main Chinese jewelry business district of Chinatown. Tourists as well as locals pack its sidewalks every day to frequent the open-air stalls and bare-bones stores selling items such as perfume, purses, hardware, and industrial plastics at low prices. Many of these goods are grey market imports and many notoriously counterfeit, with fake trademarked brand names on electronics, clothing, and personal accessories (including the fake Rolex watches that have become a Manhattan cliché). Bootleg CDs and DVDs were common and were offered for sale on Canal Street—often before they were even officially released in stores or the theater—in makeshift stands and suitcases or simply laid out on bedsheets. The widespread sale of these counterfeit goods persists along Canal Street and in its hidden back rooms despite frequent police raids. In addition, legislation was proposed in 2013 to try to make purchasing counterfeit items a crime; this would let the city's economy earn back at least $1 billion annually in taxes. After the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, Canal Street was the northernmost boundary of the area initially closed to everyone but residents and emergency personnel. When the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund was established, Canal Street was again the northern cut-off for the World Trade Center Exposure Zone.

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