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Coney Island, New York, circa 1905. "Picnicing on the beach -- a hasty lunch."
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1902-1914 Lower East Side; Orchard Street; North view from Rivington Street (NYPL) by straatis, via Flickr
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A vertiginous view of New York circa 1910. "Broadway from Chambers Street -- City Hall Park, Post Office, Park Row, City Investing and Singer buildings."
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E. O. Hoppe, Manhattan, New York City 1921.
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Moment in history: The headline of the newspaper the man in this May 18, 1940 photo reads: 'Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris.' This picture shows the corner of Sixth Avenue and 40th Street in Manhattan
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August 1942. "Window of a Jewish religious shop on Broom Street." NYC.
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86th Street, looking east from Lexington Avenue. The 3rd Avenue El is in the background.
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In this postcard, stamped 1913, it looks like a cathedral. But it’s actually the flagship building at City College’s Hamilton Heights campus, built in 1906 at 138th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a colossal home on Amsterdam Avenue and 136th Street, housed 1,000 kids. It opened in 1822.
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Main concourse of old Pennsylvania Station, 1962 (a year before it was torn down). It was made of glass and steel, reminiscent of train sheds in Europe.
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Original Penn Station main waiting room, 1911, inspired by ancient Roman baths. Ceilings were 150 feet high, and sunlight poured in through the lunette windows
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Jørn Møbius My, what a shame that had to go. What were they thinking !!
Early hot dog merchant, 1936, by Berenice Abbott, shot it at the corner of Moore and West Streets--the Lower West Side then but Tribeca today.
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The potatoes for sale in this 1937 photo don’t look too appetizing. But it was the height of the Great Depression, and a hot spud for a nickel may not have been such a bad deal
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Dee Dee Drastic times calls for drastic measures....
Ephemeral New York -A blog chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.
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1940 - Movie Theatres on West 42nd Street, between Broadway & 8th Avenue
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A woman and her dog, Harlem 1943 by Gordon Parks
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Dec. 31, 1979: As the year drew to a close, “some New Yorkers responded more to the moment than to the new decade,” the original caption read. “Youngsters in an alley near East Broadway cavorted with their shadows in crisp sunlight.” The photographer remembers shooting the scene. “The light and the moment were wonderful,” he said recently. “The drying laundry made it memorable. You used to see laundry hung out to dry all the time in New York. Not anymore. Damn those dryers.”
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Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan. (November 19, 1935)
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Columbus Circle during a heat wave in August 1944. A large Coca Cola sign and thermometer registers 100 degrees on top of building next to the Mayflower Hotel, New York.
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On February 29, 1952 the first pedestrian signal is installed at 44th and Broadway in Times Square.
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W. Eugene Smith, View from the Window of the Loft at 821 6th Ave, New York City, c. 1957
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New York, 1953, photo by Eliot Elisofon
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"Mission where Elsie Sigel met her slayer." Photograph circa 1915. The body of the 19-year-old missionary, granddaughter of Civil War hero Franz Sigel, was found in 1909 bound in a trunk in her lover Leon Ling's fourth-floor apartment at 782 Eighth Avenue in New York, next to the Chinese restaurant where he was a waiter. Ling disappeared, and the crime remains officially unsolved.
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Italian vegetable sidewalk stand, on Bleeker Street, near Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, in August of 1937.
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New York City by Leonard Freed, 1950s
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Manhattan Bridge, under-construction, seen from the roof of Robert Gear Building, showing suspenders and saddles, on February 11, 1909.
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March 1912. Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St., New York.
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New York circa 1911. "Grant's Tomb. Rubber-neck auto on Riverside Drive."
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An aerial view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, on January 27, 1965.
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Times Square theaters by day, in New York City. The Times Building, Loew's Theatre, Hotel Astor, Gaiety Theatre and other landmarks are featured in this January, 1938 photo. (Bofinger, E.M./Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives) #
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A one-legged newspaper boy and other "newsies", on Delancey Street, on December 26, 1906.
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The Queensboro Bridge, showing reconstruction of tracks looking east, on November 22, 1929. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives) #
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