Nope. That was the Equitable building, 11 years earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_Building_%28Manhattan%29

The Woolworth Building would be off image, to the far right.

I don't think so. The Woolworth Building fronts directly on Broadway, the main thoroughfare in the photo, and would be located immediately across the street from (to the right of) the City Hall Post Office in the center of the photo.

I don't think so. The Woolworth Building fronts directly on Broadway, the main thoroughfare in the photo, and would be located immediately across the street from (to the right of) the City Hall Post Office in the center of the photo.

Yep! You're right! Thus that image would date some time around 1910. Sad that the Post Office was demolished. :(

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3461/3721942566_5c65fdfeed_z.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29997762@N05/favorites/page29/?view=lg

500 Fifth Ave construction, Midtown Manhattan 1930

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3514/sophiemlove.0/0_fecf_9032e47b_orig

Wall St. 1905

http://rolandparker.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/1905.jpg
http://rolandparker.wordpress.com/graphics-library/

Impressive image quality too !

Really wonder why modern cameras don't make such a sharp picture...

(compare http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h8zcwnuVj3o/S6DwE2QYzFI/AAAAAAAArzc/CdQy-YllcjM/s1600/14+Wall+Street+alt+001.jpg )

Nope. That was the Equitable building, 11 years earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_Building_%28Manhattan%29

Very true! Sorry for the mistake! :bash:

Wow all pics are impressive :eek2:
NYC has to be the oldest skyline in the world....
The last picture is impressive, both the quality and the image itself. All those guys in suits look like clones :lol:

Wow all pics are impressive :eek2:
NYC has to be the oldest skyline in the world....
The last picture is impressive, both the quality and the image itself. All those guys in suits look like clones :lol:


The guys in the photo are trading stocks at the Curb Market in the middle of Broad Street. They traded outdoors every business day year-round, even in rain or snow. The photo is one of the best pictures of the Curb Market I have ever seen. The traders finally moved indoors in 1921 when they formed the American Stock Exchange. I think one reason some of these old photos are so crisp is that the photographers used large glass-plate negatives.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6834772445_84aa536663_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6834772221_1b8964978d_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6834772125_34d9f0ccab_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6455266955_a59d0c30e1_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6455269913_5e43354c26_b.jpg

The guy in the leather jacket crouching on the SE corner of 1WTC roof looks French to me ? Hmmmm ? He doesn't have a tightrope in his pocket does he.........

The guy in the leather jacket crouching on the SE corner of 1WTC roof looks French to me ? Hmmmm ? He doesn't have a tightrope in his pocket does he.........

That's definitely Petit.

40 Wall and 70 Pine look so damn tall without those hideous boxes surrounding them ...

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/h5forem/NewYork-D.jpg

And so much more beautiful too!

Manhattan's scattered with ugly concrete boxes, most of them should be replaced asap.

Although I agree with your sentiments modern office space requirements call for larger floorplates than most of the icons of early- mid 20th century Manhattan...........

I love midcentury modernist boxes.





Columbus Circle


1892 groundbreaking ceremony

http://c767204.r4.cf2.rackcdn.com/d07a6036-2e5f-4845-a04c-184405272bc0.jpg
http://www.pitchengine.com/museumofthecityofnewyork/the-greatest-grid-the-master-plan-for-manhattan-18112011-exhibition-celebrates-bicentennial-of-audacious-plan


Streetcar lines being laid, 1897

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/Columbus-Circle-nyc-0389.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/old-new-york-photo-catalog/upper-west-side


1899

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3165/2786854139_4364b89126_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2786854139/)
Columbus Circle (http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2786854139/) by George Eastman House (http://www.flickr.com/people/george_eastman_house/), on Flickr


1900

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c19000/3c19600/3c19641v.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007661252/


1907 panorama

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a11000/6a11900/6a11901r.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007661252/


1913 looking south

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvdyl9cT-_Y/To8v71pkiDI/AAAAAAAAJJ8/jqFdRvkF0RI/s1600/columbus.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html


1914 looking north

http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/columbus-circle-1914.jpg
http://goldenagedames.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/vintage-new-york/


Night shot, 1920

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/Columbus-Circle-at-Night-nyc-0824.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/catalog/midtown-west


1921

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5268/5734242036_54fba45aef_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/syscosteve/5734242036/)
Columbus Circle Looking South c. 1921 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/syscosteve/5734242036/) by syscosteve (http://www.flickr.com/people/syscosteve/), on Flickr

c.1930

http://manonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cars11.jpg


Columbus Circle c.1933

http://wirednewyork.com/images/nycbw/050.jpg
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010


1938

http://i38.tinypic.com/2u7axs1.jpg
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3019838&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

Western Union Building, Lower Manhattan 1875

http://nyc-architecture.com/IM-111002/110927-GON053-01.jpg
http://nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON053.htm

And its 1930 replacement in Tribeca

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FdMipHpt0wo/TUVce4zN_MI/AAAAAAAABAY/E8ZkwhbCCKI/s1600/Irving%2BUnderhill%2B-%2BWestern%2BUnion%2BTelegraph%2BBuilding%252C%2BWest%2BBroadway%2B%2528circa%2B1931%2529.jpg
http://ars-photographica.blogspot.com/2011/03/irving-underhill-western-union.html

South St and Fulton Market area c.1915

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mlPoGU4VqSk/SxFPXGlj0RI/AAAAAAAAGoA/prQoVpk4f8Q/s1600/Untitled.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

City Hall Park 1905

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3033/2786856623_63a30e6071_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2786856623/)
City Hall Park (http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2786856623/) by George Eastman House (http://www.flickr.com/people/george_eastman_house/), on Flickr

Great contributions as usual, thank you!


What happened to the Western Union Building?

Great contributions as usual, thank you!


What happened to the Western Union Building?

Thanx!

The old Western Union Building didn't last long. In 1890 it was destroyed by the first major high rise fire recorded in NYC.

West Side cowboy c.1930

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/Tenth-Avenue-and-West-28th-Street-nyc-0362.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/old-new-york-photo-catalog/people-and-professions

West Side cowboy c.1930

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/Tenth-Avenue-and-West-28th-Street-nyc-0362.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/old-new-york-photo-catalog/people-and-professions

Nice photo. For those who don't know, the West Side cowboys rode on horseback in front of freight trains that came into the city along 11th Avenue, known colloquially as "Death Avenue" because of the many people killed by the trains. The cowboys' job was to warn vehicles and pedestrians that a train was approaching. The street-level tracks were replaced by elevated tracks in the early 1930s, but by then few freight trains were coming into Manhattan, and the elevated tracks were eventually abandoned. Since 2006, the elevated tracks have been renovated to create today's High Line Park, one of the more interesting attractions in New York.

The photo is also interesting to me because it shows the grittiness of Manhattan back then. Many middle-class and poor people lived in Manhattan, and most neighborhoods were anything but fancy. Today Manhattan is much more elegant and is affordable primarily to well-to-do people. I don't mean this as a social lecture but merely an observation. I don't know the exact location of the photo above, but it's probably in the west 40s or 50s, areas that are changing rapidly with new apartment buildings, new restaurants and other amenities.

Scanned from my own collection of old negatives and slides. Quick scans, no cleaning.

1.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30238.jpg

2.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30239.jpg

3.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30240.jpg

4.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30255.jpg

5.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30257.jpg

6.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30206.jpg

7.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30216.jpg

8.
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30252.jpg

wow!

Awesome. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Which corner / buildings are shown in the first scan? Really couldn't tell from the gems I can spot there.

Awesome. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Which corner / buildings are shown in the first scan? Really couldn't tell from the gems I can spot there.

That looks like 5th Ave and 58th St. looking north along Fifth Ave with the Savoy Plaza Hotel (white building with slanted roof) in the foreground and the Sherry Netherland Hotel behind it. The Savoy Plaza was demolished in 1966 to make way for the General Motors Building. Not sure about the identity of the Gothic Revival tower at right but it too was demolished.



And Hoogbouw010's slides are always a treat! :)

Scanned from negative:

3rd Ave / E 59th St
http://www.oranga.com/pics2/scan30242.jpg

Nothing comes close to NYC, astonishing skyline. Besides London, no other city in the world can boast NYC's greatness, in my humble opinion.

I love London...but beside the last post.........lets not compare those............because there is nothing about the two that is comparable...they are both magnificent in their own way but completely different........and that's what makes the world what it is..............anyway moving on................

Britain..........>I respect your opinion by the way

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8408/ks0sc.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/ks0sc.jpg/)

1938
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/system/photos/30423/med_abbott_15-jpg.jpg

1933
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/system/photos/30424/med_abbott_06-jpg.jpg

1933
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/system/photos/30425/med_abbott_05-jpg.jpg

1932
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/system/photos/30426/med_abbott_04-4-jpg.jpg

1936
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/system/photos/30427/med_abbott_13-jpg.jpg

From here (http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/5683/berenice-abbott-a-retrospective).

1936
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Pike_and_Henry_Street_by_Berenice_Abbott_in_1936.jpg

1935
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Huts_and_unemployed_in_West_Houston_and_Mercer_St_by_Berenice_Abbott_in_Manhattan_in_1935.jpg

1936
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Radio_Row-Berenice_Abbott.jpg

1936
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/John_Wanamakers%2C_Fourth_Avenue_and_9th_Street%2C_Manhattan._%283110616024%29.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/3110619126_077fdbc224.jpg

http://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/charleslane1930s1.png

http://stevesayskanpai.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ba3.jpg

http://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/rhinelandergardens.jpg

http://www.screanews.us/NewYork/NewYorkBW_files/060.jpg

All from Berenice Abbott
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Berenice_Abbott_by_Hank_ONeal_NYC_1979.jpg/220px-Berenice_Abbott_by_Hank_ONeal_NYC_1979.jpg

The New York Central cowboy in post #1766 is on 10th Ave around 28th St. The building in the distance is still there at the NW corner of 36th St.

Waldorf Astoria going up, 1930

http://www.hosttotheworld.com/omeka/archive/fullsize/construction009_37282b5711.jpg
http://www.hosttotheworld.com/omeka/items/show/278

http://www.hosttotheworld.com/omeka/archive/fullsize/construction_2627_d3612a9341.jpg
http://www.hosttotheworld.com/omeka/items/show/197

1931 "From my window at the Shelton" Alfred Stieglitz

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/101018_stieglitz-p75_p465.jpg
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/10

Hindenburg over the NY Times Bldg. 1936

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0RBt3cSwbzo/TcgD4SpZ3vI/AAAAAAAAIqw/4EeJWXNFR3Y/s1600/times.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2011/05/hindenburg-over-new-york-still.html


dh41Z9Bd9ag

More Hindenburg footage from the mid-'30s

(at 1:30)
lEykTo0n9yk

VMpjwRVYR70

Triborough Bridge 1937, Berenice Abbott

http://www.aqnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Triborough-Bridge-East-125th-Street-Approach-NYC-1937-%C2%A9-Berenice-Abbott.jpg
http://www.aqnb.com/event/berenice-abbott-jeu-de-paume-paris/

8th and Broadway 1937

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/Broadway-and-8th-Street-nyc-0373.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/old-new-york-photo-catalog/greenwich-village

34th St btween 6th and 7th Aves. 1937

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/34th-Street-between-Sixth-and-Seventh-Avenues-nyc-0367.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/content/34th-street-between-sixth-and-seventh-avenues-1937

Broadway and W. 115th St. 1937

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/Broadway-and-W-115th-Street-nyc-0075.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/content/broadway-and-w-115th-st-1937

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4138/4892566407_c203d5ef51_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/4892566407/)
1937 NYC Vintage Photo RCA Building From Empire State Building Sailors 1930s (http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/4892566407/) by Christian Montone (http://www.flickr.com/people/christianmontone/), on Flickr

Midtown skyline 1930

http://images.ewins.com/digital_asset_manager/image_resize.php?vi=457445&mdx=1200
http://popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/LOC+1139624/MIDTOWN-SKYSCRAPERS-FROM-WEEHAWKEN-LOT-12482-%3CITEM%3E


The Chrysler and Lincoln Buildings 1930

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/Chrylser-and-Lincoln-Buildings-nyc-0400_0.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/content/chrysler-and-lincoln-buildings-1930

Midtown aerial 1964

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/West-34th-Street-and-Fifth-Avenue-nyc-0995.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/tags/empire-state-building

Wartime New York: 1943


52nd St. 'Strip'
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e19fynwBG5M/TkB4nYdoa8I/AAAAAAAANv0/AEGqGygwbIQ/s1600/leoneddie2.jpg
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/01/manhattan-43.html

View from 30 Rockefeller Center
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V7biM_aUdWI/TkB4nj-U0yI/AAAAAAAANv8/mHvtRjS2sSw/s1600/leoneddies.jpg


Rockefeller Center display
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vlROM7s2pbg/TkB6TuesMpI/AAAAAAAANwM/aQvzetv2GKg/s1600/surrender.jpg
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/01/manhattan-43.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zBhT6rLLZb0/TkB4nzF6wOI/AAAAAAAANwE/5U1aUQ8mr2I/s1600/nazis.jpg
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/01/manhattan-43.html


Sunbrock's Big Top Circus 50th St.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y10UQXddIhQ/TkB4nC4ZmsI/AAAAAAAANvk/JOOhBUC5y88/s1600/circus.jpg
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/01/manhattan-43.html

Mulry Square 1930s

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqXIF9MH3lk/S_Hoi2VKe_I/AAAAAAAAJ8M/Cj15u_lXNMI/s1600/screen-capture-4.jpg
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2010/06/finding-nighthawks-part-3.html

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1930a.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1930b.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1933b.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1933a.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1933-Head-On-Shot.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/1938.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/Edward_Hopper-Nighthawks-1942.jpg
http://shadeone.com/nighthawks/

Where is Mulry square? Never heard of it.

Love that "Unconditional Surrender" sign at Rockafellor Center too.

Wonder what the part leading up to "Our Answer" said.

Where is Mulry square? Never heard of it.

It's kind of an old school locale at South Seventh, Perry and W. 12th Sts. It's the setting for Edward Hopper's famous "Nighthawks" painting from 1942.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqXIF9MH3lk/S_lZDT9SmSI/AAAAAAAAKBU/Mt2vXMCunAI/s1600/mulrydinerbig.jpg

St. Patrick's Day 1909

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EOTXIhDH2Lo/TYFqZKuEvmI/AAAAAAAAPFM/0Lf5FCbI768/s1600/St_Patricks_day_Parade_1909.jpg
http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

Looking south from the Metropolitan Life Building c.1925

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6979121205_794d246e32_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thearchiveonline/6979121205/)
South from the Metropolitan Life Tower (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thearchiveonline/6979121205/) by H.A. Dunne & Co., New Milford, CT (http://www.flickr.com/people/thearchiveonline/), on Flickr

1910

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/024.jpg
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-BW.htm

Herald Square 1909

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/023.jpg
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-BW.htm

Boys playing near abandoned sugar plant 1906

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m58Ox_3B34g/TxdNDDTqL8I/AAAAAAAAJlI/BYQkMbMA-48/s1600/gang.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/sugar-high-yonkers-boys-up-to-no-good.html

Kent Garage, a 25 story garage for automobiles

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X1uijt479a8/T2dQax6Dg_I/AAAAAAAAJ24/rqMmj87Krhc/s1600/kent.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2012/03/motor-hotels-manhattans-most-luxurious.html

Wartime mural at Grand Central Station

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mlPoGU4VqSk/TH0LLw-vdrI/AAAAAAAAHyk/_dRkv0WpfdY/s1600/mural+grand.jpg
http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2010/08/mural-grande-war-bonds-in-grand-central.html

Tammany Hall c.1914

Notorious den of civic corruption!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Tammany_Hall_LC-USZ62-101734.jpg
http://milonika.ilcannocchiale.it/

Lower Manhattan aerial c. 1930

http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/images/american-cities-047.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/

(nice large size of this familiar image!)

The bustling '20s in NYC:

fGAt0ic52gc

Dirigible over west side Manhattan 1931

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/041.jpg
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-BW.htm

Midtown spires 1931

http://www.screanews.us/NewYork/NewYorkBW_files/043.jpg
http://www.screanews.us/NewYork/NewYorkBW.htm

Singer Building nearing completion, 1908

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Liz-ONBC/The%20Thin%20Man/NYC/4a18597v-1.jpg
http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=53507

Manhattan Bridge, 1945 Brett Weston

http://fansinaflashbulb.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/weston_brett_331_2003.jpg
http://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/happy-birthday-brooklyn-bridge/

Lower Manhattan Towers 1913

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5014/5486350736_36f61581d5_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30405858@N05/5486350736/)
New York, circa 1912, Big buildings of Manhattan (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30405858@N05/5486350736/) by Beast 1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/30405858@N05/), on Flickr

Fantastic additions, thanks a lot!


Damn, how I miss some of those classical beauties showcased in this thread :(

NYC really should watch its historical heritage more nowadays. Almost any lost pre-war building is a big loss for the whole of Manhattan and its unique aura.

Midtown aerial 1964

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/West-34th-Street-and-Fifth-Avenue-nyc-0995.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/tags/empire-state-building

How little some things change.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3324/70562922.jpg (http://img62.imageshack.us/i/70562922.jpg/)

And some things/areas in Manhattan shouldn't change, really.


It's time for NYC to rise more in other boroughs, such as Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, anyway.

Manhattan already is too crowded. Density should have a limit after all.

Well, that particular view may only change slightly as preservationists race to cap building heights around the ESB ahead of projects like 15 Penn. :cheers:

Woolworth Building 1913

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/View_of_Woolworth_Building_and_surrounding_buildings_New_York_City_1913.jpg
http://dcaligari.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

What a pic! :shocked:

Flying into La Guardia , 1961.

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9506/55640368.jpg (http://img839.imageshack.us/i/55640368.jpg/)

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8061/94986704.jpg (http://img27.imageshack.us/i/94986704.jpg/)

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2910/64157054.jpg (http://img842.imageshack.us/i/64157054.jpg/)

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6324/63575006.jpg (http://img256.imageshack.us/i/63575006.jpg/)

Circa 1902. Fifth avenue (the MET)
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6448/shorpy4a20604a.jpg

Circa 1905. Coney Island.
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1184/shorpy4a12425a.jpg

Circa 1910. Singer Building
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/573/shorpy4a18633a.jpg

Circa 1904. Coney Island.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/4593/shorpy4a11804a.jpg

Circa 1905. Coney Island.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/117/shorpy4a17584a.jpg

Circa 1904. Coney Island
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7854/shorpy4a17429a.jpg

Circa 1905. Union Square Park
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/1183/shorpy4a10760a.jpg

Circa 1908. West 23rd Street from Sixth Avenue.
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/4394/shorpy4a18640a.jpg

Circa 1906. Gridwold Street.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7338/shorpy4a13460a.jpg

Circa 1906. Wall Street
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/274/shorpy4a22927a.jpg

Circa 1905. Luna Park, Coney Island
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/734/4a12430a.jpg

From shorpy.com/.

Luna Park. :(

Coney Island has fallen far in the last century...

1905. Mott Street
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9800/4a17658a.jpg

Circa 1904. Longacre (see below) Square
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3913/4a06899a.jpg

Circa 1908. Times (Long Acre) Square
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6581/4a10325a.jpg

Circa 1906. 14th Street
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4205/4a12204a.jpg

Circa 1905. Tombs Prison (Center and Leonard Street)
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8845/4a12617a.jpg

Circa 1905. Brooklyn Bridge
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3294/4a12689a.jpg

Circa 1905. Coney Island
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7981/4a12418a1.jpg

Circa 1905. Fifth avenue
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/874/4a12278a.jpg

Circa 1904. City hall subway station
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/272/4a11579a.jpg

Circa 1904. Manhattan Hotel, 42th street (map of NYC 1899 Railway system here (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/1899_Manhattan_street_railways.jpg)).
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9056/4a11678a.jpg

And on the left of the hereup picture :
http://www.shorpy.com/files/ladder_0.jpg

Circa 1900. Pell Street
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4225/4a09039a.jpg

Circa 1900. The Bowery
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/953/4a08188a.jpg

Circa 1900. Madison Square
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9053/4a09015a1.jpg

Circa 1903. Grand Central
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/7611/4a07322a.jpg

Circa 1900. From Woodbridge Building.
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/411547Circa1900.jpg

From shorpy.com

They are some really beautiful pictures of how the city once looked. Some of those buildings are truly something, although its a real shame that during the 1960's some of the most amazing ones were torn down, eg the Singer building or Penn Station :(

All Circa 1933.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9206/05850u.jpg

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/2291/05849u.jpg

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9537/05853u1.jpg

Folks of the time must have thought 30 Rock came from the moon! It is surely one of the greatest architectural achievements in American history.

Also, though I'm sure this has been posted around here before, it never gets old:

lkqz3lpUBp0

^ Uhm, what? Rather minimalistic Art Deco buildings have been there way before the 30 Rockefeller / GE Building, it's just the immense scale that surely must have been impressive compared to most other projects of the time.

Yes, that's what I meant.

Today this thread has reached a million views!!!

To "celebrate" this i made an album on picasa webalbums with the most beautiful/intresting vintage pictures of New York City i could find that were posted in this thread.

Enjoy :)

See here: https://picasaweb.google.com/103212274078657480387/OldPicturesOfNewYorkCity

^ Wow, what an outstanding job! Thanks a lot pal! Really great selection. Danke! :okay:


And congrats for 1mln views folks, this thread totally deserves 10 to 100 times the views!

^
Or at least 8.2 million views! ;)

How beautiful was NYC with all those trans, it gives an old feeling. Nowadays i think that feeling has been lost, it's not the same athmosphere anymore. :(

Architecturally speaking, NYC was somehow like Vienna. With palaces and castles, only 30-70 stories high. :)

Even though I've never been to NYC, I really miss some of those astonishingly beautiful buildings! New York was and it still is, one of a kind! :D

Lower Manhattan Towers 1913

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5014/5486350736_36f61581d5_o.jpg


What's the name of this building on the right, with highly decorated cupola? The one that seems to be slightly darker than rest of the buildings. Is it destroyed or replaced?

Today this thread has reached a million views!!!

To "celebrate" this i made an album on picasa webalbums with the most beautiful/intresting vintage pictures of New York City i could find that were posted in this thread.

Enjoy :)

See here: https://picasaweb.google.com/103212274078657480387/OldPicturesOfNewYorkCity

fantastic collection of photos. NYC is an amazing city, constantly evolving and whilst it's sad to see the Chrysler(sp?) and ESB no longer as prominent as they once were it's not really a loss because of the superb skyline you now have.

can't wait to visit NYC again in 2013.... it's been 11 years. far, far, far too long :ohno:

What's the name of this building on the right, with highly decorated cupola? The one that seems to be slightly darker than rest of the buildings. Is it destroyed or replaced?


It's the manhattan life insurance building. It actually has quite a interesting history you can read a blog about it here:

http://manhattanlifeinsurancebuilding.blogspot.com/

^ Thanks for the info. What's in its place today?

^ Thanks for the info. What's in its place today?

Ugh, not much, just another disgusting brutalist building :ohno:

http://i.imgur.com/iX8Ae.jpg

Wirednewyork.com

http://i.imgur.com/YBweL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/o5J9z.jpg

:cripes:


Mr. Bloomberg, tear down this box!

Well, at this location, the old tower wouldn't have much of an impact. But it's still a considerable loss for the cityscape, if more and more of such buildings vanish.

Old pics have a finite number yet they continue to turn up here.......in anticipation...we love them all !

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg151/scaled.php?server=151&filename=wowc.png&res=landing
http://www.whosay.com/ap/photos/162732

(just a warning for whatever reason they included some crime scenes from killings, nothing gruesome)

Chrysler Building begins topping out, 1929

http://adamunderhill.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/construction1.jpg
http://adamunderhill.wordpress.com/

Manhattan Bridge construction, 1908

http://dumbonyc.com/images/blog/washst_1908_964px.jpg
http://dumbonyc.com/2012/04/26/dumbo-then-and-now-manhattan-bridge-construction-in-1908/

Fifth Ave. and E. 23rd St. c.1901

http://www.nycvintageimages.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/East-23rd-Street-and-Fifth-Avenue,-1901-nyc-1359.jpg
http://www.nycvintageimages.com/category/old-new-york-photo-catalog/construction

Newspaper Row 1906

http://blog.strayboots.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/newspaper_row_1906.jpg
http://blog.strayboots.com/tag/riddles/

St. Paul Building built 1898 'America's Tallest Building'

http://www.officemuseum.com/IMagesWWW/Syndicate_Bldg_Left__St._Paul_Bldg_27_Stories_NY_patented_1903.jpg
http://www.officemuseum.com/office_buildings.htm

Tribune Building c.1890

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/newspaper_towers_04.jpg
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/34474

NY Times Building 1904

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/newspaper_towers_01.jpg
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/34474

View of Midtown from Fairchild Aerial Survey

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/line0984.jpg
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/line0984.htm

Rockefeller Center 1937

http://wirednewyork.com/images/nycbw/089.jpg
http://backthen-magna.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

Lower Manhattan from Fairchild Aerial Survey c.1931

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/line0987.jpg
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/line0987.htm

Lever House, 1952.

http://i46.tinypic.com/34s1ox5.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/6h4vw0.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/mu7t61.jpg

February 1961. Note the recently completed Chase Manhattan Plaza and the still-standing Singer Building.

http://i46.tinypic.com/1g19au.jpg

(sorry, I thought I had the source for these, but I saved them on my computer years ago and don't remember where they came from.)

Lower Manhattan, July 1950

http://i47.tinypic.com/2i8kgt0.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/24had.jpg

July 1951

http://i49.tinypic.com/f9l208.jpg

August 1951

http://i49.tinypic.com/65u9lc.jpg

June 1957

http://i49.tinypic.com/egwqbq.jpg

City Hall and park, 1900

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6862905229_07cf23880a_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30405858@N05/6862905229/)
City Hall and Park, New York. Photographed by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1900. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30405858@N05/6862905229/) by Beast 1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/30405858@N05/), on Flickr

Top of the Rock 1948

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6850241821_c6160e6a2a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutrock/6850241821/)
New York City -- Top of the Rock 1948 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutrock/6850241821/) by mutrock (http://www.flickr.com/people/mutrock/), on Flickr

Top of the Rock 1948

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6850241821_c6160e6a2a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutrock/6850241821/)
New York City -- Top of the Rock 1948 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutrock/6850241821/) by mutrock (http://www.flickr.com/people/mutrock/), on Flickr

It's amazing how well people dressed in 1948 for a tour of Rockefeller Center. Dress codes have certainly changed since then.

July 1960

http://i49.tinypic.com/if4h75.jpg

I'll upload more if anyone wants?

Please sir.......I want more.

It's amazing how well people dressed in 1948 for a tour of Rockefeller Center. Dress codes have certainly changed since then.

yeah, i always think that way too :ohno:

"I'll upload more if anyone wants?"

That's a great photo. Yes, more.

Equitable fire 1912


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VA6rPmzDz7Q/T3hg9hnIT4I/AAAAAAAADvM/QjT0oVwvEic/s1600/Walk%2BIn%2BNew%2BYork%2B-%2BNew%2BYork%2BVintage%2B-%2BJanuary%2B1912.%2BEquitable%2Bfire%2Bas%2Bviewed%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2BSinger%2BBuilding%2B-%2BGeorge%2BGrantham%2BBain%2BCollection%2B%255B800x600%255D.jpg

War drums 1917

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30d1a5xe91qe99klo1_1280.jpg
http://itsjohnsen.tumblr.com/post/21746835367/your-country-needs-you-recruiting-on-23rd

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2184/2162707105_b52b5a60ac_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162707105/)
Hall of Records, N.Y.C. (LOC) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162707105/) by The Library of Congress (http://www.flickr.com/people/library_of_congress/), on Flickr

War drums 1917

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30d1a5xe91qe99klo1_1280.jpg
http://itsjohnsen.tumblr.com/post/21746835367/your-country-needs-you-recruiting-on-23rd

This thread is now fully kablamo.

May 1961

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/unitednationsmay1961.jpg

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/midtownmay1961.jpg

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/4272189837_8895b49816_b.jpg

June 1961

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/centralparkjune1961.jpg

July 1961

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/airjuly1961.jpg

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/timessquarejuly1961.jpg

July 1962

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/constructionjuly1962.jpg

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/parkavejuly1962.jpg

Note: Not sure of the building being constructed.

June 1951

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/secretariatjune1949.jpg

July 1953

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/libertyislandjuly1953.jpg

August 1955

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/midtownaerialaug1955a.jpg

November 1955

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/lowermanhattanaerialnov1955.jpg

September 1957

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/timessquaresept1957.jpg

1958

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/seagram1958.jpg

March 1958

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/midtownpiersmarch1958.jpg

November 1958

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/lowermanhattannov1958.jpg

July 1959

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/financialdistrictjuly1959.jpg

January 1960

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh529/adrianchapelo/aerialjanuary1960.jpg

^
I love midcentury NY images!

There's even a thread devoted to them: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1438350

Check it out! :cheers:



This thread is now fully kablamo.

Well the poor little ol' Flatiron has to defend herself somehow!

6th Avenue 1940

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/nycm042712/n29_05181260.jpg
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/100286/

Quite astonishing! Wow! That athmosphere i would like to live it, it's a shame i didn't catch those times...:sad2:

World Building

http://americantourismbook.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/worldbuilding.jpg
http://americantourismbook.com/

Midtown 1930s

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lnthddQX1roep5no1_1280.jpg
http://nycpast.tumblr.com/page/10

9th Ave. El at 66th St.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/nycm042712/s_n40_mac02250.jpg
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/100286/

Grimy day under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1918

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/6998765728_0d3115b15d_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/6998765728/)
Was New York once an industrial city? You bet! Smoky, smoggy view from under the Brooklyn Bridge with horse carts on a cobblestone street and a fire in an empty lot. 1918. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/6998765728/) by wavz13 (http://www.flickr.com/people/wavz13/), on Flickr

Smoky Queensboro Bridge, 1930

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7225/7224107788_ff48cae025_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/7224107788/)
Grim industrial view of the Queensboro Bridge and two massive smokestacks, showing the reconstruction of its train tracks looking east to Queens. New York. 1930. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/7224107788/) by wavz13 (http://www.flickr.com/people/wavz13/), on Flickr

Workman on the George Washington Bridge, 1936

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7242/7167576506_8987011ae7_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/7167576506/)
A workman taking a break between the bolts and beams of the George Washington Bridge facing the smoky skyline of 1930s Midtown Manhattan. 1936 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/7167576506/) by wavz13 (http://www.flickr.com/people/wavz13/), on Flickr

Brilliant pictures on these last posts. Many thanks from a NY-Fan!

^
You're welcome!

Harlem 1939

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WGCDn-mruYM/T703099gBqI/AAAAAAAASe0/zUsbxNbywW8/s1600/MNY20613.jpg
http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/