Radio Row

New York City's Radio Row with the Cortlandt Street station in the background, 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.