Editing Radio Row (section)

{{Short description|Urban area with a large number of businesses selling radio equipment}}
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[[File:Radio Row, Cortlandt Street, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482561).jpg|thumb|Heins and Bolet,<ref>http://qcwa.org/radio-row.htm</ref><ref>http://soundandvision.com/content/dreaming-not-impossible-dream-radio-days</ref><ref>collections.mcny.org/Collection/Radio Row-2F3XC5UBTQMI.html</ref><ref>http://oldqslcards.com/HEINS_BOLET.pdf</ref> the oldest radio store, open since 1920, on [[New York City]]'s Radio Row with the [[Cortlandt Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Cortlandt subway station]] in the background, and  an elevated train station above, in a 1936 photograph by [[Berenice Abbott]]]]

[[File:Crowds listening for news on Kennedy NYWTS.jpg|thumb|A crowd gathers near an electronics shop at Greenwich and Dey streets after [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]]'s assassination on November 22, 1963]]
[[File:Argo Sidewalk jeh1.JPG|thumb|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 [[Electronics|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.