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New York City's Radio Row, which existed from 1921 to 1966, was a warehouse district on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Major firms that started there include Arrow Electronics, Avnet (founded by Charles Avnet in 1921), and Schweber Electronics.
5 sty 2024 · One of many such “Radio Rows” in cities throughout America, New York City’s was the largest and one of the oldest. It was roughly bounded by Dey Street to the north, Liberty to the south, between West and Church Streets.
4 mar 2016 · When the idea of an international trade center downtown was first proposed in the 1950s, Radio Row’s merchants were all for it because it did not appear to threaten them: initial plans called for it to be located along the East River approximately where the South Street Seaport is now.
4 wrz 2014 · From 1921 to 1966, a roughly 13-block stretch going north-south from Barclay Street to Liberty Street, and east-west from Church Street to West Street, was a thriving small business stronghold...
Radio Row was a neighborhood/commercial district that existed in the footprint of what subsequently became the World Trade Center. It was a crowded series of shops selling consumer electronics that rose during the 1920s due to the rise of home electronics and radio technology.
Decades before the World Trade Center was built, the lower Manhattan neighborhood once known as Radio Row bustled with commercial activity. As recounted by Tribeca Tribune, it was home to restaurants, flower shops, hardware stores and bookstores, as well as the roughly 400 radio, television and hi-fi stores that inspired the district’s name.
25 wrz 2017 · Photos and first-person observation all speak to the clutter and home-grown nature of the neighborhood, with The New York Times calling it a “paradise for electronics tinkerers.” Every ...
