Radio Row

Heins and Bolet, the oldest radio store, open since 1920, on New York City's Radio Row with the Cortlandt subway station in the background, and an elevated train station above, in a 1936 photograph by Berenice Abbott

A crowd gathers near an electronics shop at Greenwich and Dey streets after John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963

Sidewalk bins of a defunct shop at 393 Canal Street

Radio Row is a nickname for an urban street or district specializing in the sale of radio and electronic equipment and parts. Radio Rows arose in many cities with the 1920s rise of broadcasting and declined after the middle of the 20th century.