"The Other Broad Street" depicts New York soda syphons. In the days before carbonated soft drinks a flourishing trade was made in the cities of the USA with the delivery of soda water. It was kept in an ice box (the uce too was delivered in pre refrigerator days; having been cut from local ponds and rivers) and mixed with fruit syrups, herbs and spices or drunk straight to make a refreshing drink. Simple carbonated lemonade and orangeade became popular and then drug store owners started adding addictive drugs to their recipes. The bottles in the foreground are the simple soda bottles. The building in the background is built, to some degree, on the profits of the soda trade; it is the New York Stock Exchange.