When i see old pics of NY i am always amazed by it.That's why i made this thread. And if you can find some old pics of NY ,post them here as well!

http://www.artexpression.com/images/TOP/jpgs/CB916.jpg
http://www.brandsmall.com/prodimages/ArtSelect/0080-13836-1045-37.jpg
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Images/artwork/PanoramPhotoNewYorkCty1931.jpg
http://ny-news.com/img/skyline.jpg
http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs12796.graphics/manhatn.gif
http://www.ou.edu/class/arch4443/Tribune%20Tower%20Competition/Woolworth%20Tower.jpg
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/images/line0987.jpg
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/images/line0984.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/chrysler2.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/empire03.jpg
The Empire State Building Plane Crash
B-25 Bomber hits the 78th floor,juli 28, 1945!!
http://www.evesmag.com/empirestatebldgcrash.jpg
http://media.abcnews.com/media/US/images/apa_old_wtc_plane_crash_w.jpg
http://www.univers-cite.qc.ca/tucs/crash_picture/usaf_b-25/empire_s.gif
Empire state building
http://newyorkhistory.info/images/postcards/newyork5.jpg
http://www.buffalogames.com/Media/Product%20Images/BGI-COLLECT/330-Hist/hires/333-Lunc_hires.jpg
http://www.earldotter.com/images/book/construction/se5-fr12-86.jpg
http://images.allposters.com/images/MCG/LF50.jpg
Chrysler Building

http://www.discountgraphics.net/photo/bw/t-tn/TCB1009.jpg
Empire State building 1931
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/images/empire.gif
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/land/4096.jpg
http://www.vintagephotos.com/Empire_StateB.jpg
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/wtc/images/buidingempire.gif
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/sloan/cleanair/nyc.jpg

New york's skyline look very beautiful in the past, now, even more beautiful;)

I liked the skyline back then better........the gothic & art deco masterpieces were not hidden behind the hastily clad monoliths of the 70's and 80's......

I think these pics show a much better skyline then it is nowadays!

http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs12796.graphics/manhatn.gif
Especially this one! The perfect setting... water... dams.. and it goes slowly up to come to a climax!

I must admit that I like the skyline back then better. New York really used to be a beautiful city... now it's just an awesome city. :)

:D

New York is a lovely slice of chaos. It never officially started and it will probably never really be finished.

Woolworth Building!
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/wea02188.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/guide/pp3062.jpg
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/images/d8214i5.jpg
http://www.geh.org/taschen/m197101550029.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a36000/6a36500/6a36589r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a36000/6a36500/6a36595r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a36000/6a36500/6a36583r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a36000/6a36500/6a36553r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a36000/6a36600/6a36601r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a11000/6a11900/6a11977r.jpg
Midtown, 1931:
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a11000/6a11900/6a11912r.jpg
1909:
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a15000/6a15200/6a15259r.jpg

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I Agree!

It is really interesting to see how many piers there were back then compared to now.

:eek2:
Messiah phenominal thread!

Interesting photos of old New York. Its cool to see old New York and a good reprieve from seeing too many modern New York photos. The Singer Building is now gone and is replaced with One Liberty Plaza.

These are possibly the best NYC pictures I have ever seen! All of these pictures are awsome and the skyline looked better back then. A lot of buildings that dont get any shine now, stick out in the skyline in their own special way. I especially loved all the aerials! :D

http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/shocked/Wow.gif http://smilies.crowd9.com/contrib/lilly/eek1bluegreen.gif

Simply amazing!
NY looked so good then..truly the skyscraper capital!

Absolutely breathtaking!

The Lower-Manhattan skyline looked far better back then then it does now.

Tugboats & Skyline....
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/tug.jpg
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/tugdock.jpg
Railroad Barge on the Hudson
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/barge.jpg
Chrysler under construction
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/chrysler.jpg
Times Square 1939
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/times57.jpg
Penn Station
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a11.jpg
Sunset at Queensboro Bridge 1936
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/qbridge.jpg
Herald Square 1920's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc1.jpg
Waldorf-Astoria on 5th. Avenue in 1900...now home to the Empire State Building
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/waldorf.jpg
Central Park Pond
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a19.jpg
Madison Square panorama 1910
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Madison%20Square%20pamorama%201910.jpg
Fifth Avenue looking north 1924
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/5th%20Avenue%20in%20New%20York%20City%201924.jpg
FlatIron building 1903
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Flatiron%20Building%20Oct%201903.jpg

This is so amazing...

*stunned*

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/T333.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/44/028_4385.jpg

Flying Over Manhattan NYC 1946
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/N298.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/135/075_BW1495.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/CB1009.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/CB955.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/FOT/FFPOFP49.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/40/013_MR749.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/H803.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/CB958.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/135/075_BW1494.jpg
Midtown Manhattan Nyc 1939
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/HG1172.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/62/040_FP0606.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/NIM/KN138.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMA/U216.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/34/017_pp0021.jpg
Construction of the Empire State Building
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/NIM/KN398.jpg
42nd Street NYC 1955
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/MDB921.jpg
Brooklyn Bridge 1955
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/MDB923.jpg
Manhattan 1938
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/G525.jpg
Wall Street District 1938
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/FOT/FFPOFP116.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/B1222.jpg
New York 1958
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/NIM/PL007.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/ESC/6840165.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/139/080_6440163.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/139/080_6540168.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/62/040_PH0077.jpg
Times Square
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/52/017_PP0035.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/HG1140.jpg
42nd Street NYC
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/A9717.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/146/PP0032.jpg
Manhattan Queen Mary 1957
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/GDF/Z1165V.jpg
Wall Street N Y 1936
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/A9712.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/ISI/257067.jpg
Manhattan Skyline, New York City 1940
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/BW1517.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/139/080_6440062.jpg
View of Manhattan Nyc 1928
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/HG1141.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/62/040_PH0076.jpg
1954, New york
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/146/PP0134.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/BW1516.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/A9718.jpg
Ny,1931
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/146/PP0034.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/G542.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/NIM/PL006.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TOP/BW1518.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/GDF/Z1654W.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/ESC/6840167.jpg
Brooklyn Bridge NYC 1938
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/IMC/G539.jpg

The skyline back then could kick the crap out of alot of the skylines standing today. :guns1: :D

Alright, that's it. Time to demolish some 60's and 70's boxes and let the NY skyline breathe again!

I've got several in mind to make examples of!:D

wow that city was really the centre of the world back then.I wonder what porn mags you could buy on the street in those days

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/34/017_pp0021.jpg
What's that bright box?

NY is amazing!!
Capital of the universe!

View of Municipal Building from Centre Street
January, 1904
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/gif/photos/full/mh1.jpg
City Hall Subway Station
May 25, 1907
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/gif/photos/full/mh2.jpg
East River Drive construction -- looking south from Queensborough Bridge
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/gif/photos/2100-3.jpg
Murray Hill Hotel; From Park Avenue and 40th Street. Nov. 19, 1935
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0918.jpg
Daily News Building; 42nd Street between Second and Third Avenues. Nov. 21, 1935
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0781.jpg
Cliff and Ferry Street. Nov. 29, 1935.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny2180.jpg
Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street. Dec. 5, 1935.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0805.jpg
40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Sept. 8, 1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0783.jpg
Columbus Circle. Feb. 10, 1938.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0885.jpg
Pike and Henry Street. Mar. 6, 1936.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0927.jpg
St. Bartholomew's, Waldorf Astoria, General electric building; Park Avenue and 51st Street. Apr. 2, 1936
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0919.jpg
Willow and Poplar Streets. May 14, 1936
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0821.jpg
Park Row; "Newspaper Row". July 23, 1936.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0923.jpg
Park Avenue and 39th Street. Oct. 8, 1936
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0917.jpg
Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 21, Pennsylvania Railroad. Mar. 23, 1937.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0074.jpg
General view, looking southwest to Manhattan from Manhattan Bridge. Mar. 30, 1937
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0902.jpg
Old Post Office; Broadway and Park Row. May 25, 1938.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0049.jpg
Wall Street, showing East River from roof of Irving Trust Building. May 4, 1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0943.jpg
Financial district rooftops: II; Looking southwest from roof of 60 Wall Tower. June 9, 1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0027.jpg
City Arabesque; From roof of 60 Wall Tower. June 9, 1938.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0028.jpg
A worker hanging on to two steel beams
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/hanging.jpeg
A worker at the edge of a platform, looking north
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/edge.jpeg
Three workers securing a rivet
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/3workers.jpeg
Workers guiding hoisting cable.:1930's.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/cable.jpeg
Worker signaling below, view looking north east
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/construction.jpeg
Connecting the beams
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/connecting.jpeg
Icarus, high up on Empire State :omg:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/Icarus.jpeg
Two workers securing a rivet
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/securing.jpeg
Two workers inspecting steel
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/inspecting.jpeg
Crew attaching rivets
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/rivets.jpeg
Worker bolting a steel support
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/bolting.jpeg
View of the building rising to about sixteen stories
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/stories.jpeg
1908. Carts with goods parked along a street in New York City, with people standing near the carts and walking in the street
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Carts%20with%20goods%201908.jpg
Oct 1903. Image of John A. Dowie, Reverend of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois, standing on a crowded street in New York City.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/crowded%20street%20in%20New%20York%20City%201903.jpg
May 28, 1934. Rockefeller Center. RCA Building, from 515 Madison Ave.. Gottscho, Samuel H. 1875-1971, (Samuel Herman), photographer.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Rockefeller%20Center%201934.jpg
1908. Trinity churchyard and skyscrapers, New York
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Trinity%20churchyard%201908.jpg
1908. Broadway, New York
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Broadway%201908.jpg
c. 1910 - 1920. Woolworth Building, New York City. City Hall Park and Post Office at lower left.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Woolworth%20Building%201908.jpg
c 1910. Times Square, New York, N.Y. Times Building in center, Hotel Astor at right.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/Times%20Square%20NYC%20c1910.jpg
c. 1915 - 1925. Central Park, aerial view, New York, NY
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/central%20park.jpg
c. 1915 - 1925. Central Park, aerial view, looking south, New York.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/central%20park2.jpg
1910. St. Paul and Park Row buildings, New York, two tallest buildings in the world.
http://www.hellonewyork.com/images/St%20Paul%20and%20Park%20Row%20buildings%201910.jpg
Wm. Van Alen: Chrysler
Building New York, 1929-30. 1046' ht.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/chryslr4.jpg
http://www.mariner.org/exhibits/album/images/lg_mm071.jpg
Two early designs and
the final product(Chrysler building)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/chryslers.gif
Construction of the Chrysler building
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/chrysler13.GIF
Photo taken from the Chanin Building
on April 14, 1930.
Image courtesy of Frank Gerlak.
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/statue/1287/English/ArtDeco/chrysler/scaffld.jpg
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/chrysler11.jpg
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/statue/1287/English/ArtDeco/chrysler/workers.gif
The Municipal Building
McKim, Mead and White
New York City, 1913
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/mmw.jpg
American Radiator Building
Raymond Hood
New York City, 1924
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/radiator.jpg
New York Telephone Building
(The Barclay-Vesey Building)
Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker
New York City, 1926
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/dailynews.jpg
The Chrysler Building
William Van Alen
New York City, 1930
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/chryslerb&w.jpg
The Empire State Building
Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon
New York City, 1930
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/empire1930.jpg
Rockefeller Center
Reinhard & Hoffmeister
Corbett, Harrison, & MacMurray
Hood & Fouilhoux
New York City, 1927-36
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/rockctr.jpg
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/images/city1932.jpg

New York was better in 1915 than most citys are now.

Simply amazing.

Broadway at Battery Place 1920's, Wide View
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc2.jpg
Central Park 1950's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc6.jpg
Central Park 1950's, The Great Lawn.
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a18.jpg
City Hall Park
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nuns.jpg
Empire State Building 1940's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a17.jpg
Gimbels in Snow Storm
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/gimbels.jpg
New York Life Building 1940's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a35.jpg
NYC Cortlandt Street 1900
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/cortlandt.jpg
NYC in the Snow 1940's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a3.jpg
NYC Post Office and Horse Drawn Trolley ca1900
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/po-trolly.jpg
NYC Skyline from New Jersey 1950's
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc30.jpg
NYC-Battery Park ca1900
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc21.jpg
Old NY Times Building 1900
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/nyc25.jpg
S-Curve, 2nd Avenue el at Coenties Slip 1&2
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a32_33.jpg
S-Curve, 2nd Avenue el at Coenties Slip-1
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a32.jpg
S-Curve, 2nd Avenue el at Coenties Slip-2
http://www.timefreezephotos.com/pictures/a33.jpg

The latest additions are rare finds!! Where did u get them?? :eek:
I really love the elegance of NY in days of yore:D

If anybody thinks New York City is not the capital of the world, they can go to hell! More pictures please.

Yeah..well i have a lot more pics.But if i post them here it would be too much.So if you want to see more pics..then check the old pics of New york city thread at the dutch forum: http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21307

There was a really good book that I came across called "New York in the 1940s". It has B/W skyline shots of lower Manhattan and the Empire State Building. There is one amazing night shot that shows the whole of the financial district with virtually all the windows of American Int, 40 Wall St and 20 Exchange lit up.

Ah i have to finish this thread.At the dutch forum we have the same thread,only that one is 6 pages.So i have to post a lot more photo's that i didn't do here yet.I won't post everything at once,because else this page will take ages to load.

A DC-4 flying over New York City, 1939
http://www.gallerym.com/pixs/photogs/mbw/images/dc4.jpg
Super G Constellation, New York - London, 1955
http://www.aviationposters.com/images/cs23.jpg
New York, 1947
http://www.aviationposters.com/images/cs15.jpg
DC-3, SS Normandie, New York, 1938
http://www.aviationposters.com/images/cs19.jpg
Braniff Airways - Manhattan
http://www.aviationposters.com/images/cs52.jpg
http://www.gallerym.com/pixs/photogs/fa/famodelplane.jpg
New York City skyline, 1912.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800376W.JPG
Lower Manhattan skyline, 1912.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800377W.JPG

New York from Jersey.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809672W.JPG
New York skyline from Jersey.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809675W.JPG
New York City Skyline.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809674W.JPG
New York from Brooklyn.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809667W.JPG

New York City skyline, ca. 1909.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809664W.JPG
Sky-line of the lower end of Manhattan Island from the North River in 1891 ; Sky-line of the lower end of Manhattan Island from the North River in 1898.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809676W.JPG
Lower New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809668W.JPG
Lower New York and Battery.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809669W.JPG

New York Skyscrapers.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809671W.JPG
New York skyscrapers & Brookyln, Bridge.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809663W.JPG
Beginning of Broadway in 1899
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800496W.JPG
Brooklyn Bridge & Woolworth B'ldg.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800560W.JPG
902 to 920 Broadway, between 20th and 21st Streets
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800318W.JPG

The new East River bridge after four years of work.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800576W.JPG
View of the bridge from New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800175W.JPG
Some high buildings of lower New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800309W.JPG
Battery Place Building.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800316W.JPG

Pedestrian overpass, New York City, early 1900s.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800307W.JPG
Courtland [i.e. Cortlandt] St. N.Y.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800311W.JPG
Panorama of New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800202W.JPG
Maiden Lane and Nassau St. S.E. cor. C14575.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800391W.JPG

Skyscrapers of New York City : aerial view of Battery Park and the sckyscrapers of lower Manhattan, looking northwards.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800392W.JPG
New York City street scene, 1910.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800387W.JPG
Ansonia apartments, New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800409W.JPG
[New York City park.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800239W.JPG

Broad Street, New York City.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800458W.JPG
Stock exchange.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800459W.JPG

Fireworks on the night of the opening of the new bridge over the East River.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800574W.JPG
The new East River bridge : general view of the structure from the Williamsburg side.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800573W.JPG
Manhattan Bridge, New York City.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800571W.JPG

Broadway and Herald Square, looking north, New York, 1911.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800473W.JPG
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800466W.JPG
Broadway and Trinity Church, New York
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800463W.JPG
From Borough Hall, 1911.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800645W.JPG
Bowling Green offices, New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800500W.JPG
Singer Bldg under construction, New York, N.Y.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800718W.JPG
St. Paul's Church, New York, and surrounding buildings.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/801073W.JPG

And now i am going to sleep.Tomorrow i will post a lot of other pics! :cool:

You people say the skyline was much more impressive back then before the more modern towers were being erected, hiding them from most of our photogaphs. I disagree. The towers are not gone, they are playing hide and seek. That is apart of the cities mytique. Everyday for almost twenty five years now I have seen something new in dear old New York City. New towers, people, businesses, shops, nothing stays the same. Nothing is ever constant. Whether you like it or not, New York City is a city of change. Old towers will be replaced with the new and people will go off to live with their families in the suburbs. It's always in motion and it really never sleeps. But to me, that is what makes the city special and different from every single city out in the world. And trust me I have been to a lot of cities. Sure the demise of a once important structure is sad, but without that, New York would have never grown into the foundations that make it one of the most important cities in the world. I wouldn't change a thing about. Every angle I look at it it is beautiful.

Nicely said TmanNYC!

Here are some other pics

Brooklyn bridge
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800530W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800509W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800556W.JPG
The massive piers of the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800559W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800537W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800539W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800538W.JPG
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/800551W.JPG

Bloc[k]aded cars on 23rd St., New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809694W.JPG
Piles of snow on Broadway, after storm, New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809691W.JPG
14th Street, N.Y.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809828W.JPG
St. Paul and Park Row buildings from Vesey St., New York.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809847W.JPG
Park Row from the mail and express.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809850W.JPG
Times Square North : night illumination.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809972W.JPG

New York,1935
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/american_cities/images/american_cities_053a.jpg

wow!!!

thats a lot of history in those pictures!

Great find! :okay:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/532/300cca.gif
Singer Building
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/532/29singer.jpg
Savoy-Plaza Hotel, NYC
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/532/82mead___white_s_savoy_plaza.jpg
Flariton Building under construction
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/532/29flatiron.jpg
Woolworth Building
New York, 1913
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/woolworth_const2.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/woolworth_const1.jpg
Empire State Building
http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/pix/nyc033.JPG
Chrysler Building
http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/pix/nyc031.JPG

Panorama of City Hall Park and Park Row, New York City 1880
http://www.picturesnow.com/pndata/display/012/012279d.jpg
Bird's Eye View of Lower Manhattan 1911
http://www.picturesnow.com/pndata/display/012/012291d.jpg
http://pes.eunet.cz/architek/0322b.jpg
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060105.jpg
Vintage view of the harbor
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060114.jpg
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060106.jpg
Flatiron Building
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060006.jpg
Railroad ferry, Hudson River, New York
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060008.jpg
Nassau Street, Stock Exchange in background ...
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060038.jpg

Downtown New York, Bank of Manhattan Building (left) and Farmers Trust
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060039.jpg
Bryant Park, on West 42nd Street, behind the Library. Looking towards 6th Avenue and 40th Street
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060043.jpg
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060068.jpg
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060070.jpg
Empire State Building
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060086.jpg
Downtown Skyport, Cities Service Building in background, center
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060089.jpg
West Street, looking south towards Battery Place, farthest to the right is Whitehall Building.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060101.jpg
New York 1940 - Daily News Building, seen from Chanin Tower, 42nd Street & Lexington Avenue http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060102.jpg
6th Avenue, corner of 54th Street. In background, Rockefeller Center
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060108.jpg
Midtown, East Side of Manhattan
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060115.jpg

New York, 1940 - Looking over 42nd Street from Chanin Building; left Lincoln Tower, right 500 Fifth Avenue
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060157.jpg
Downtown skyport, Lower Manhattan
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060289.jpg
New York 1940 - South Street
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060303.jpg
Garment district, manufacturing buildings West Midtown Manhattan. The steam comes from pressing plants
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060305.jpg
New York City 1940 - View from Woolworth Tower over Hudson River and New Jersey
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060306.jpg
Manhattan Bridge
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060307.jpg

AMAZING THREAD!! Beautiful pictures!! :okay:

New York City 1941 - S.S. America, and the skyscrapers of Downtown Manhattan
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060310.jpg
Fishing vessels on South Street with the west tower of the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060311.jpg
9th Avenue Elevated armiture in Harlem, on 8th Avenue near 127th Street
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060312.jpg
Downtown Skyscrapers near the Hudson River
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060313.jpg
Cortland Street, 9th Avenue Elevated Station; Woolworth Tower on Broadway in background
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060315.jpg
View of Downtown Manhattan from the Brooklyn Shore, near the Brooklyn Bridge. In foreground a burned down pier
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060318.jpg

View over the Lower East Side, slums and cheap tenements
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060347.jpg
Hudson River docks, New Jersey. Downtown Manhattan in background.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060349.jpg
Hudson River looking towards Upper Bay.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060350.jpg
View of New York City from New Jersey
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060358A.jpg
New York skyline seen from a distance of approximately 16 miles in New Jersey
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060367.jpg
Empire State building seen from New Jersey at a distance of 8 miles
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060373.jpg
Looking along 42nd Street across Hudson River
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060380.jpg
Skyline of Midtown Manhattan...from Paterson, N.J.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060381.jpg
Nassau Street looking south
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060387.jpg

St. Paul's Chapel
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060392.jpg
Park Avenue, Manhattan
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060393.jpg
Downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge, East River
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060397.jpg
Walking on Brooklyn Bridge, going towards Manhattan.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060409.jpg
New York 1940 - S.S. Normandie; in background Rockefeller Center; seen from the New Jersey Shore
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060420.jpg
Skyline of Midtown Manhattan. The view is from New Jersey as a distance of some 10 miles.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060421.jpg
Empire State Building and Midtown skyline of New York seen from the south-east.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060422.jpg

Brooklyn Bridge and pedestrian promenade.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060423.jpg
New York Hudson River waterfront. The French liner Normandie lying at the dock of the French Line
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060444.jpg
New York 1940; Downtown Manhattan seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060480.jpg
New York 1940; Downtown Manhattan seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060481.jpg
Empire State Building, New York, seen from New Jersey.
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060483.jpg
New York, Times Square - Broadway looking south
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060490.jpg
Broad Street
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060506.jpg
George Washington Bridge
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060507.jpg
New York, Brooklyn Bridge promenade at night
http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060505.jpg

http://www.markreubengallery.com/1277big.jpg
http://www.thecityreview.com/astoria.gif
http://www.thecityreview.com/astor.gif
http://www.thecityreview.com/ellis.gif
http://66.201.239.27/bwframes/61/61105,61602,61202/22/preview/j8PSANDNYHARBORp.jpg
Flariton building
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10030000/10030675.jpg
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10040000/10040804.jpg
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10040000/10040803.jpg

These photographs are moving!

I love black and white photographs.

I vote for this to be Best Thread of 2003!!! :okay:

Wow! Great pics messiah. I think that the new and old skyline each have a uniqueness and specialty about them..the old was more striking and goth...the new more dense and modern...

I've got this pic as a poster on my room:

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10030000/10030675.jpg

This pic came from this new postcard thread.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/mtskyl.jpg

Btw,please surf trough this amazing thread.
The pics are worth loading.You won't regret it ;)

AMAZING pictures!

Some of these are VERY rare and finally some decent Singer Building pictures!

Old and New City Halls and World Building, New York City.
http://www.oranga.com/pics/scan001.jpg
New York Skyscrapers and Harbor from Woolworth Tower.
http://www.oranga.com/pics/scan006.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0003p012s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0003p014s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0003p021s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0003p025s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0003p026s.jpg
RCA Building, NYC - 1939 (Pub.: Seidman Photo Services)http://www.oranga.com/pics/card004.jpg
Empire State Building, NYC (Pub.: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co.)
http://www.oranga.com/pics/card008.jpg

Mmmmmm.......good old Gotham.......:)

I digged all over SSC,and found more pics :) :


http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/findis.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/lowerny.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/aadc6.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/bevnyc.jpg
http://www.algonet.se/~stenborg/vy9.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/oldwald.jpg
http://www.skylighters.org/walton/delstreetlookingeast.jpg
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~springville/town3.jpg
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~springville/town7.jpg
http://www.moodyscollectibles.com/2798.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/bevwf.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/mtskyl.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/nyc/couniv.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/trinty.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/pennsy.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/gwbrg.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/hellgate.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/brookbr.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/nyc/postof.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/nyc/nyse.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/skylin.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/nyc/nypl.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/emp.jpghttp://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/libertytower.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/empireorig.jpghttp://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/nyorker2.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/standard.jpghttp://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/flat.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/wellington.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/plaza.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/rogsmith.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/lex.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/manhattan.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/com1.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/com1.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/biltmore.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/clint.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/pennhotel.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/oldwald.jpg

:eek2:
Amazing find Messiah!
You should add some of them to the ROTs!

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, Messiah, and thank you very much!
:okay: :okay:
I think I was more moved somehow by NYC than by any other place I've been, and I have to say that skyline is one of the reasons...so many splendid buildings, so much life and energy, the sense that you can always walk out your door and find something exciting...Broadway, Macy's, Times Square.....

And of course the Empire State, Chrysler, and Woolworth Buildings are, IMHO, three of the loveliest skyscrapers yet built...not to mention Rockefeller Center, the Chanin and RCA Buildings, etc., etc., etc...

Besides, the subways are the best mass transit I've ever seen - incredibly fast and efficient (as long as you don't get caught in one of the "person eating" turnstiles when you're trying to swipe your MTA card.... :D)

Besides, the subways are the best mass transit I've ever seen

You need to get to Europe and Japan more often Liz!:D

But NYC always accepts kind words with grace even if they are w/o a sound basis.;)

Great finds on this thread. I posted a big chunk of NYC historic transit maps here, scroll down http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7530&perpage=20&pagenumber=4

I have a book called Wonders of World Engineering that was published in Britain in the 1930s.

Here's what it says about New York:

'No ocean voyager, however wide his experience, ever forgets his first sight of New York from the sea. As the skyscrapers come over the horizon, he obtains a glimpse of fairyland - something totally fantastic and unreal. On a closer approach, New York might be some toy town built by giant children with a mammoth box of bricks. Closer still, the mind is bewildered by the attempt to grasp the real size of these gigantic, slender towers, even the smallest of them housing the population of a reasonably sized town.

Except for the Eiffel Tower, Paris - a mere skeleton of iron - there is nothing in the Old World with which to compare them. The summit of the Great Pyramid is less than 500 feet above the desert; in New York there are numerous skyscrapers, crowded together at the end of a small island. Forty of these buildings exceed 500 feet in height and two of them are over 1,000 feet high. Some - particularly the tallest and most recent - are graceful in outline; but, one and all, it is their immense height which stuns and bewilders the spectator. They seem to have stood for ages and to have been planned for eternity.'

Messiah, I credit you for the creation of the best thread ever on Skyscrapercity. Congratualtions.

The best tread in the world!!!
for the best city in the world!:)

Stop making me cream my jeans!

These pictures are kick-ass. New York City will continually evolve and change, and we're lucky enough to have documentation of these changes. Movies from corny silent films to present day big-budget b-movies highlight the changing landscape.

Every era has something to offer, from the art-deco make-over during the jazz age to the burned out grafitti wonderland of the south bronx in the seventies. New York is a city that is ever changing and the creative minds that live or flock there will keep it vibrant no matter what.

A nuclear bomb could hit the city and something amazing would still emerge. New Yorkers are a hardy bunch.

This one deserves a sticky!

Five old books about ESB, Woolworth Building and New York are online on my website, see the link below.

Taken from glass negative: NYC / 26 October 1948 / Woolworth Building / Singer Building.
http://www.oranga.com/pics/s1105430.jpg

OMG!!

Yes this is the best thread I've ever seen!! Those early NYC scrapers is why I was interrested in scrapers in the first place!

These pics are part of a book wich you can see here (http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/cgi-bin/docsindex.cgi?pic=1&lang=en&indexlen=16&term=History+Empire)

http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p013s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p014s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p006s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p019s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p020s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0005p023s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0002p022s.jpg http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0002p023s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0002p036s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0002p037s.jpg
http://www.cityskyscrapers.com/docs/b0002p038s.jpg


Singer Building
http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/516.jpg
http://www.structurae.de/photos/1566/119897pv.jpg
http://www.structurae.de/photos/1566/119895pv.jpg
http://www.beauxarts.org/singer_building2.jpg

NYC, 1936
http://www.oranga.com/pics/old113.jpg
NYC, 1905.
http://www.oranga.com/pics/old112.jpg
Rockefellercenter
http://www.saed.kent.edu/SAED/History/Modern/Hood/hood_rockefellercenter.jpg
Woolworth Building
http://www.saed.kent.edu/SAED/History/Modern/Gilbert/woolworth1.jpg
A cool stamp of the ESB
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/online/usonline/lessons/empire.gif

Nice pictures man! No wonder why New York is my favorite city.
Very very cool :cheers:

New York kicked ass. Now it's... meh. Less organized and too many wannabe towns have better skyscrapers.

By the way, I just noticed that the construction photos of the ESB look a lot like those of Taipei 101.

I respect your opinion, but New York City now is just..."meh?"

If you have yet to walk through Midtown and Downtown Manhattan, please do that ASAP.

If you already have...then, whatever.

:drool:

Great thread, what a history.

Superb thread.

Flatiron Building is a symbol, central park looks like heaven and dowtown Manhattan truly great.

:applause:

As I see it, NYC should have never allowed some buildings to dissapear. Re-Building does not always mean evolving, even in the case of the most unique city in the world.

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/american_cities/images/american_cities_053a.jpg

not bad,but i prefer nowaday NY than it B4.

Waauw!!! NYC has/had so many art deco buildings back then! I really can't wait to go to NYC, I wish I lived over there!!!

http://www.morningside-heights.net/manair.jpg

The ESB must have been so shocking to the world back then!

Earlier years of the Statue of Liberty:

http://americahurrah.com/images/SL9.jpg

http://www.archfoundation.org/octagon/collections/prints.drawings.1.jpg

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/11/images/hh11a1.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/sol%201900%20e3w.x.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a55000/3a55000/3a55010r.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a40000/3a40400/3a40438r.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8a37000/8a37300/8a37395r.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solusdi1944e.jpg

http://www.the2buds.com/pc/ny/NY_0794.jpg

http://www.magny.org/pics/nyc/photo72009.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b30000/3b36000/3b36500/3b36522r.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solusdi1944d.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solbedloe'spaintingm1x.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solbedloe1930.jpg

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/statueofliberty.JPG

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solusdi1944f.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b30000/3b37000/3b37600/3b37639r.jpg

This (http://forums.wirednewyork.com/viewtopic.php?p=37224#37224) thread by ablarc on WNY has many older pictures also.

Great shots BigMac, thanks for posting those! I've never seen the podium shots of the Statue of Liberty being construction, interesting.

My favorite is the last picture with the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan, it's a classic no doubt. It's a perfect showing of the old "romantic" Lower Manhattan skyline feeling people refer to.

Amazing City

http://www.egghof.com/NewYork/Bilder/Manhattan%20ohne%20WTC.jpg

Wow very nice thread! So much history packed in here!

:dance:

Great pics guys.Here is another one of the Singer Building
http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/byron/02132.jpg
Too bad it has been demolished :(

http://www.science-explorer.de/bilder/ufo-21_manhattan1963.gif

Please thank Ablarc for these wonderful photos. I hope he doesn't mind these photos included in the thread, based on the same subject.







With pleasure, ENJOY!








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Woolworth

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West St., 1885

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Herald Sq., 1888. 6th Ave. El.

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West St., 1890

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Terminal, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz.

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Winter, 1893. Stieglitz.

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Broadway, 1894

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Herald Sq., 1895

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Lower Broadway, 1899. Lots of hats.

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Police Parade, 1899. Bowler hats, hardly any women.

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Tiffany’s, Union Sq., 1899. Early car and some figures added by artist.

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Getting a ticket, 1900

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Easter, Fifth Avenue, 1900.One car visible, coming towards foreground.

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Hester St., Lower East Side, 1901.

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Flatiron, 1903. Burnham.

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Broad St., 1904. Stock Exchange and Federal Hall.

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Municipal Building under construction, 1904. McKim. No cars.

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The Belmont Coach, 1905, four horses. Dogs run free.

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Easter, Fifth Ave., 1906. No cars.

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City Hall subway, 1907. Turkish headhouses.

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Lower East Side, 1908.

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Herald Square, 1909. Skyscraper beyond is NY Times Building in Times Sq. Cars have replaced horses.

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Automatic Vaudeville, Union Sq., 1910.

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Downtown skyline with Singer Building., 1910. World’s tallest.

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Downtown skyline with Woolworth Building., 1913. World’s tallest.

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Birdseye, 1913, with artist’s enhancement. Hand colored.

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Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, modified phalanx. Soldiers on sides assigned to upstairs windows. Wilson feared antiwar riots, losing mind to small strokes.

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Times Square from New York Times Building., 1922.

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HMS Leviathan and Singer Building., 1923.

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Fifth Ave., 1924. Buses and taxis on parade.

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Coney Island, 1928. Walker Evans.

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Lower Broadway Tickertape, 1928. For Bremen crew, first east-west transatlantic flight.

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1928. Three biggest spires not yet built. Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

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1935 Philadelphia, just for fun. Skyscraper density nearly matched New York’s. Fairchild.

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Chrysler Gargoyle, 1929.

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42nd Street, 1929. Walker Evans.

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Building the Empire State, 1930. Lewis Hine.

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Icarus, 1930. Hine.

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Liberty, 1930. With symbols.

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1931. Fairchild.

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Midtown, 1931. The tracks lead to Penn Station. Post Office spans tracks, may some day be Penn Station. Fairchild.

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Sikorsky Clipper, 1931. New spires gleam. River traffic, piers, ocean liner in slip.

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Midtown’s lineup of spires with sky in between, 1931.

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Six engines! 1931.

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The valley between, 1931.

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Brooklyn foreground, 1931. Small scale dense area between bridges on Manhattan side now a Ville Radieuse. Fairchild.

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Spires of Gotham, 1932

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Tropical Drinks Five Cents, 1932

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Subway execs inspect new subway car, 1933. Breakthrough blowers ventilate with windows closed! Cane seats.

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Columbus Circle, 1933. No Time-Warner, no Trump International, no Venetian palazzetto.

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Just $24 in1626? More than that in 1933.

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Three-point perspective, 1934.

Berenice Abbott photos, 1935

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Chambers at Oak. Horse-drawn wagon.

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Bowery.

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Henry St. Beyond, Towers of Zenith loom in the mist.

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Mad King Ludwig in Greenwich Village: Jeferson Market, then Jefferson Courthouse, now Jefferson Library, 6th Avenue.

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Murray Hill Hotel with fancy fire escape.

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Cities Service Tower. Horse-drawn wagons lingered into the mid-sixties.

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Prickly skyline with famous bridge, 1935.

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Times Square, 1935. Betty Boop on the marquee. The Astor came down mid-sixties, along with Penn Station and Singer Building: a bad time for beaux-arts. Streetcars in the square, no overhead wires.

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Times Square looking South to Times Building. Mid-sixties this was stripped to steel skeleton and re-clothed in kitsch marble by mod illustrator Peter Max. More bad times for beaux-arts.

Berenice Abbott photos, 1936

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The El featured potbellied stoves.

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Fifth Avenue bus in Washington Square.

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Dapper in front of Dock Department.

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Billie’s Bar, First Ave. at 56th.

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Bowery and Doyer. 3rd Ave. El.

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Christopher and Bleecker. A wood-clad survivor.

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Church of God, E. 132nd St.

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Ferry, Chambers St.

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Greyhound and Penn Station.

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Herald Sq. Chain-drive trucks also survived into the sixties.

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Manhattan Bridge.

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Milk Truck, Greenwich Village.

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Newspaper (Park) Row. Center building once tallest. Berenice Abbott.

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Park Ave. and 39th.

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At Hudson River terminus of Cortlandt St., motorized and horse-drawn vans transferred goods to and from barge-borne railcars.

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Pike and Henry, Lower East Side, with Manhattan Bridge and a horse.

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S. Klein On-The-Square, Union Sq. Contraposto.

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Union Square with Turkish subway kiosk. Is that man using a cellphone??

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Magnificent Manhattan spires from Willow and Poplar, Brooklyn. Cathedrals of Commerce.

Berenice Abbott photos, 1937

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Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn.

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Avenue D and 10th St. Chain-drive truck.

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Hester Street.

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Riverside Drive Viaduct. .

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Oyster House, South Street, under Manhattan Bridge, with pile of oyster shells.

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Father Duffy, Times Square. Andre Kertesz, 1937.

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Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn (now DUMBO), Kertesz, 1937.

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Henry Hudson Parkway at 72nd St.: fancy interchange. Fairchild Aerial Surveys, 1937.

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Rockefeller Ctr., 1937. St. Thomas’ Church at left, site of Jackie O’s funeral. Fairchild.

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Simply Add Boiling Water, 1937. Photo by Weegee.

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The old Met(ropolitan Opera), Garment District, 1937. Weegee.

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Still clean and gleaming, the Towers of Zenith, 1937.

Berenice Abbott, 1938

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Duke Mansion, a tobacco tycoon’s, 1 E. 78th St. at Fifth Ave.

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40th between 6th and 7th. Zoning generates the form.

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Flam & Flam, Lawyers, 165 E. 121st St.

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Wall Street from 60 Wall.

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From 60 Wall Street.

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Cathedral Parkway (110th Street).

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Columbus Circle. Building with Coke sign another of Hearst’s skyscraper bases. Unlike the one Foster is currently completing, this one was torn down for the Gulf and Western Building, now re-imagined by Phillip Johnson as the Trump International Hotel.

More black and more white!








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By 1850, a decade after Daguerre took the first picture, photography was already a big thing in New York.

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Purpose-built artists’ studios on 10th Street, Greenwich Village in 1858 (left); and again in 1938, about a decade and a half before they bit the dust. Love those convertible coupes.

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The home of Louis Comfort Tiffany, jeweler and art nouveau craftsman, 1885. Designed by Stanford White, this impressive pile stood till 1936, packed with stained glass and iridescent things. Looking built for the ages, its life span was actually less than either of its creators’.

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Another of White’s concoctions: Washington Square Arch, shown here in 1895 before the statues of George were added. Through the arch you can glimpse another White opus, Judson Memorial Church. Cars drove through the arch till 1971.

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White’s Colony Club, Madison at 31st, 1904.

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A dour portrait of Stanford White, founding partner of the eminent McKim, Mead and White, Architects. In fact White shared his clients’ enthusiasm for the good life conducted in various hideaways around town.

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The second Madison Square Garden, Fourth Avenue, 1892. White designed an apartment for himself in the tower. Here, beneath a nude huntress Diana, he conducted his affair with the beauteous Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and was famously shot dead by her jealous husband Harry (1906). The building itself expired in 1925. Today’s Garden, where Dubya will soon be anointed, is the fourth.

Beauty to kill for, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw:

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Somehow she looked different in every picture:

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She must have been iridescent as a peacock feather. Not one woman, but many.

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“Tired Butterfly”, photo by Rudolf Eickemeyer

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Distraught husband, Harry Kendall Thaw. Inncocent by reason of insanity. Insane to have fallen for a pretty face. Insane to have cared so much.

The entire lurid story: http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Evelyn_Nesbit.html

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Just for fun, four images of women from 1906:

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Gustav Klimt

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Gustav Klimt

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Pablo Picasso

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Also on Madison Square: another elegant icon of the ragtime era, Burnham’s impossibly majestic Flatiron, world’s tallest skyscraper when built, here in 1903 photos by Alfred Stieglitz (left) and his good friend, Edward Steichen (right). Steichen was the poet of murk, and Stieglitz married Georgia O’Keefe.

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Stieglitz and Steichen, much later.

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Three modes of wheeled transport in Madison Square, 1904.

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Lower East Side: airshaft of dumbbell tenements, so-called because they flared out at street and in back, leaving airshaft and consequently legal bedrooms under the code. Imagine the view.

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Car races train on billboard, Madison Avenue at 42nd Street, 1910.

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Lower Manhattan, 1910. Singer now world’s tallest.

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Next it was Woolworth. This photo after 1927.

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Graf Zeppelin over New York, 1928.

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Solid piers on both rivers, 1929.

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Building the Empire State, 1930.

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West Side Highway, the first urban elevated highway. Gone a bit over a quarter century-- after a section collapsed-- this provided drivers with a thrilling ride past ocean liners and skyscrapers, with narrow lanes and sharp angle turns. Built for Model T’s.

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A city of spires, 1931.

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Penn Station.

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Penn Arcade.

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George Washington Bridge before stiffening trusses and second level, 1931. O.H. Ammann, engineer; Cass Gilbert [of the Woolworth Building!], architect. Tower trusswork was to be clad.

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1932

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Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, 1932.

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Ellis Island, 1933.

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Gramercy Park West, 1935. Berenice Abbott photo.

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Seventh Avenue south from 35th, 1935.

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512-14 Broome Street between Thompson and West Broadway, 1935. Abbott.

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Queen Elizabeth, 1935.

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Fish, 1935. Abbott.

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Stone and William Streets, 1935. Abbott.

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601 West 23rd Street, 1935. Abbott.

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Firehouse, 1936. Abbott.

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McGraw-Hill with 9th Avenue El, 1936. Abbott.

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General Electric Building, 1936.

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MacDougal Alley, Greenwich Village, 1936. Abbott. At that time, the alley still went through to Fifth Avenue.

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3rd Avenue and 46th Street, 1936. Andre Kertesz photo.

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The Flatiron again, this time in 1937.

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771 Broadway, 1937. Berenice Abbott.

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1937. Abbott.

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Battery Park, 1937.Castle Clinton roofed over: aquarium?

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Rockefeller Center, 1937

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Summer, Lower East Side, 1937. Photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

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Central Park with Savoy Plaza, 1937

Just fantastic.

Ehm....wow :D You must have posted more then 300 pics!
But a lot of pics you posted,were already posted in this thread :) But that's ok..i think.
Thanks GVNY! :)


Just try not to post all those pics in 1 time.Just spread the photos over more pages. So it won't take ages to load 1 page :)

Oh, my apologies. I realized that some you already posted, but it would take too much time to take them out.

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Jefferson Market with the hulking, deco Women’s House of Detention behind (now demolished for a park). From the barred, open windows, the ladies would hurl obscenities at passersby.

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504-506 Broome St. Ancient.

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Union Square West. A hilarious jumble gets A+ for accidental design. These lots once held town houses. Their dainty footprints have been preserved, so the buildings have a delicate scale regardless of their height. One is a miniature skyscraper. Scale-obsessed NIMBYs take note: you need to object to a building’s footprint, not its height.

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From Jersey, the classic skyline view.

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Subway Portrait. Walker Evans, 1938.

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Artists and Poets, Washington Sq., 1939

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42nd Street Beauties, looking west, 1939.

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Clipper, 1939. Europe in 29 hours.

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DC-4 Over Midtown, 1939. Hood’s Daily News Building lower right.

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Fish market meets railroad under Roebling’s bridge, 1939.

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Abandoned in the downpour, 1939. West Side.

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Forty-second Street.

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42nd Street with Lincoln Zephyr.

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Sixth Avenue El, 1940.

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Downtown from Empire State. Andre Kertesz, 1940.

1940 Photos by Andreas Feininger

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Ninth Avenue El, 8th at 127th, Harlem.

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The Bowery.

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Bryant Park.

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Downtown Skyport with Cities Service Tower.


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The original twin towers.

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Tower trio. Slender flattop is Irving Trust, tower at right now belongs to Trump.

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New York’s greatest walk.

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Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

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Girlies.

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Downtown gunsmith.

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Three icons: Empire State; Horn and Hardart (The Automat), New York’s original restaurant chain, long gone; lamp standard, now being re-installed.

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Elevated.

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Central Park looking southeast toward Grand Army Plaza. The baronial Savoy-Plaza Hotel dominates with its vast, vaguely French roof and twin chimneys: another major Beaux-Arts landmark demolished mid-sixties. Replaced by Stone’s vapid GM Building, recently acquired by Trump.

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Elevated station, Downtown.

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Underwear and kosher chickens.

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What happens when you burn coal.

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A Greek temple burning coal.

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Flatiron with Fifth Avenue bus.

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Garment District stacked factories steam hats.

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Arm wrestling in Harlem.

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Harlem night club.

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Lower East Side, tenement city, looking north.

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Streetwall: Park Avenue South.

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Raymond Hood, master of Deco.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/139.jpg
Seventh Avenue.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/140.jpg
South Street, now a theme park and mall.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/141.jpg
At the foot of 42nd Street: Normandie with three fat stacks in the middle, Queen Mary with three skinnier stacks at bottom. Normandie burned here, Nazi sabotage claimed.
Normandie was that time’s biggest and fastest (Blue Ribbon).

1941 Photos by Feininger

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/142.jpg
Forty-second Street. Mid-size Beaux-Arts skyscraper on north side of street is Times Building, of New Year’s fame. Building still exists but reclad in mid-sixties.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/144.jpg
Classic skyline view with America, junior edition United States.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/145.jpg
Downtown from Jersey.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/143.jpg
Midtown from Jersey.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/146.jpg
Horror vacui, Hebrew style.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/147.jpg
The hats match the canopies. Macy’s, 34th St.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/148.jpg
Nassau St. looking north.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/149.jpg
Normandie berthed. Feininger, 1941

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/150.jpg
Rector St.

Charles W. Cushman Photos, 1941
A color photographer with a black-and-white soul.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/161.jpg
The classic pyramid, here with harbor traffic and puffs of pollution.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/162.jpg
Suits on the pier. What are these men doing?

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/163.jpg
Fulton St. from South St.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/164.jpg
Broome St. and Baruch Pl., Lower East Side. Not a sidewalk café.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/165.jpg
Lower East Side: street as living room.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/166.jpg
Lower East Side: street as conference room

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/167.jpg
Municipal Building, Courthouse and Jail. Big arch seemed futile before El removed.
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, 1941.

Charles Cushman photos, 1942.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/169.jpg
Lunch, 5 Cents: looking up Broadway to Singer Building.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/168.jpg
Collecting the Salvage on Lower East Side.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/170.jpg
Pearl Street, 1942.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/172.jpg
Central Park. Feininger, 1943.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/173.jpg
The Fashionable People [harassed by the homeless]. Weegee, 1943.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/174.jpg
Murder in Hell’s Kitchen. Weegee, 1944.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/175.jpg
Coney Island. Weegee, 1945.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/176.jpg
The photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig).

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/177.jpg
Hole where plane (B-25) hit Empire State Building, 1945.

Andre Kertesz photos

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/178.jpg
Brooklyn, 1947. Andre Kertesz.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/179.jpg
Lower 5th Avenue. Kertesz, 1948.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/180.jpg
East River Esplanade. Kertesz, 1948.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/181.jpg
Metropolitan Life and Empire State. Kertesz, 1950.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/182.jpg
City. Kertesz, 1952.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/183.jpg
Skyline with Rooster. Kertesz, 1952.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/184.jpg
Washington Square. Kertesz, 1954.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/185.jpg
A city of spires. Just before the flattop invasion, late fifties.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/186.jpg
First view of Manhattan from the Queen Elizabeth, 1953. The module of the window.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/187.jpg
Liberty, 1954.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/188.jpg
Times Square with James Dean. Dennis Stock, 1955.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/189.jpg
Balcony. Kertesz, 1957.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/190.jpg
Guggenheim under construction, 1958. Car and building share design philosophy.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/191.jpg
MacDougal Alley. Kertesz,1958.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/192.jpg
Sixth Avenue. Kertesz, 1959.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/193.jpg
Man Sleeping. Kertesz, 1960.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/194.jpg
Whitehall street from Peter Minuit Plaza near Battery. Cushman, 1960.

Four photos by Kertesz

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/195.jpg
Rooftop, 1961.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/196.jpg
Harlem, 1963.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/197.jpg
Washington Square, 1969. Edge of Arch at left.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/198.jpg
Washington Square Arch, 1970.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/199.jpg
Cleopatra Jones and Woody Allen,1971.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/200.jpg
Lying Men, Washington Sq. Kertesz, 1974.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/201.jpg
Kertesz, 1979.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/202.jpg
World Trade Center. Dennis Stock, 2001.

* * *

Three New York Buildings

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/203.jpg
Chrysler.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/204.jpg
Chrysler.

Two Greatest Beaux-Arts Buildings Demolished:

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/205.jpg
The main waiting room of Penn Station. Groined vaults in coffered stone.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/206.jpg
The Baths of Caracalla.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/207.jpg
The way to the trains.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/208.jpg
Groined vaults in steel and glass.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/209.jpg
Seventh Avenue. McKim, Meade and White, architects. 1903-63. The building made it to age 60.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/210.jpg
613 feet!! In 1908!

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/211.jpg
Ernest Flagg was the architect.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/212.jpg
This building also made it to age 60 [1908-68].

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/213.jpg
Another five years and they would have preserved it.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/214.jpg
French Beaux-Arts.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/215.jpg
Vacant and awaiting demolition.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/216.jpg
From Broadway.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/217.jpg
Queen Elizabeth and skyline. Andre Kertesz, 1958.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/60.jpg
The classic skyline configuration, 1937: a mound with protruding spikes. This was lost with the addition of the World Trade Center. When the Center came down, this configuration did not return; we have a kind of Table Mountain instead.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/61.jpg
Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, 1938: dressed to the nines. Berenice Abbott.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/62.jpg
65 West 39th Street, Garment District, 1938.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/63.jpg
420 East 23rd Street, 1938.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/64.jpg
View from 60 Wall Street, 1938. Abbott.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/65.jpg
The mound and the spikes again, this time from the Brooklyn Bridge. Abbott, 1938.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/66.jpg
4, 6, 8 Fifth Avenue. Abbott, 1938.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/67.jpg
131-137 Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights. Abbott, 1938.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/68.jpg
The spires of Midtown, 1939.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/69.jpg
Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge and Midtown, 1939: four times a day as the river’s flow changes direction: a bridge over troubled water.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/70.jpg
Broad Street. Andreas Feininger photo, 1940.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/71.jpg
Polo Grounds, Eighth Avenue at 159th Street, 1940: where the Giants played before they moved to San Francisco. Demolished 1964; Harlem River in background.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/72.jpg
Cortland Street and Ninth Avenue El, 1940.

Photos by Andreas Feininger, 1940

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/82.jpg
Downtown.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/83.jpg
Franklin Square El.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/84.jpg
South Street.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/85.jpg
View from Cities Service Tower, 70 Pine Street.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/86.jpg
West Street.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/87.jpg
Times Square.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/88.jpg
William Street. Buick.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/73.jpg
Seaplanes landed in East River at Skyport.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/74.jpg
Williamsburg Bridge.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/75.jpg
Times Square.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/76.jpg
The right slenderness ratio for a skyscraper; could be 200 stories and it would look right. Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/77.jpg
Browsing the ladies. Times Square.

Ethnic New York by Feininger, 1940

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/78.jpg.http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/79.jpg
Jewish (left); Greek

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/80.jpg.http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/81.jpg
Italian; Mulberry Street, Little Italy

Five by Feininger, 1941

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/89.jpg
Day Line.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/90.jpg
Employment Agency. Depression would soon be cured by War.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/91.jpg
Looking South toward Brooklyn.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/92.jpg
Normandie.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/93.jpg
West Side Highway at 125th Street.

Color Photos by Charles W. Cushman, 1941

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/94.bmp
Fulton Fish Market.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/95.bmp
Immigrant Woman.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/96.bmp
Lower East Side.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/97.bmp
Lower East Side.
1942

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/98.bmp
End of Broadway.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/99.bmp
“Lower First Avenue is Spruce Looking”

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/100.bmp
Chinatown.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/101.bmp
McSorley’s, East Village.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/102.bmp
“Poverty, Young and Old, Black and White”

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/103.bmp
Street Scene. This one makes me think of Hopper.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/104.jpg
Queensboro Bridge. Kertesz, 1947.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/105.jpg
Queen Elizabeth, 1948.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/106.bmp
Fireboats greet the SS United States, 1949.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/107.jpg
Times Square looking south towards Times Building, 1949. Movie, 3rd Man one of the great thrillers, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/108.jpg
Andre Kertesz, 1950.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/109.jpg
United States, 1953.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/110.jpg.http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/111.jpg
Washington Square Park. Kertesz, 1953 and 1954.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/112.jpg
Ebbets Field, 1956. Home of the Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved to L.A.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/113.jpg
Yankee Stadium, 1956.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/114.jpg
Times Square, 1957.

Six by Kertesz

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/115.jpg.http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/116.jpg
1959 (left); 1962.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/117.jpg.http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/119.jpg
Washington Square, 1962 (left); 1969.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/118.jpg
MacDougal Alley, 1967.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/120.jpg
1971

1979

This year was a New York nadir. The city seemed doomed. The state of the subway seemed the harbinger of doom. Bruce Davidson chronicled that subway:

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/121.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/122.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/123.jpg
An undercover cop arrests a mugger. This photo is not staged.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/124.jpg

Parting shots from http://www.geocities.com/frank754/ny.html

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/198.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/199.jpg
Abandoned West Side Highway, a portion of which had collapsed.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/200.jpg
Abandoned…

I hope that helped a bit Messiah.

that's a jaw-dropping collection gvny!

man, that's some grand pics of the old penn station. it sucks downright that it, singer building, the normandie, and the queen elizabeth (im also interested in ships as well as skyscrapers) no longer live today. and big U deserves better than being abandoned in philly.

man, that's a lotta graffiti on those subway trains...

I am a huge fan of maritime history and ships. They don't make ships like they use to. There are some rare shot of Penn Station in those. It is strange, for a station that welcomed 3 billion people to New York, there are not many photos of it.


By the way, thank ablarc for compiling this collection of photographs. He deserves all the credit given. I just brought it over from SSP as no one else had.

Great pictures, GVNY!

I hope people realize that a plethora of photos have just been posted!

This skyline sure did blow the world away last century.

http://www.net.md/nycity/hyst/6a11912r.jpg

http://www.net.md/nycity/hyst/6a36601r.jpg

@GVNY, that was damn kickass, thanx for posting those. i never saw color pictures of NYC in the 40s. amazing :eek:

what a great foto -album
NY=DREAMCITY :) :)

No Doubt..I saved almost every image...Same with our Manhattan thread.

:eek2: Great pics guys, keep em coming!

My favorites


http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/161.jpg

classic, i imagine a navy crewman, some sailor of some sort, maybe from some corn crop town out in iowa, just coming home from service somewhere, and his first sight of america, of prosperity, and just the overwhelming feeling he got, when he reach the harbour, and layed his big ole iowan eyes on this sight. It's such a clear shot, from this time , i love how 70 pine and 40 wall look so clean and fresh.

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/185.jpg

wow, this is an amazing shot, look @ all those peirs along the east river, just amazing.

THIS ONE IS MY ULTIMATE FAVORITE:

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/70.jpg

I can't really explain it, but everything looks so clean and crisp, New York City ,man......

we should compare and contrast broad st. then and now @ night.... i love this photo, excellent.

We can add these to the Old NY thread after everybodys had a look. There are about 20 images or so...
I didn't want to bog down the other thread...
it's already packed!

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/south_ferry.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/orchard_street.jpg

little rascals
http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/playing_water.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/coney_island.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi_1.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/skyline_von_ellis_island_aus.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/subway001.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/battery_park.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/central_park.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave_2.jpg

I'm rich biitch!
http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/people001.JPG

AMAZING pics, thanx for posting!

Oh man! That second picture with the Chrysler building u/c is so rare, never seen anything like that!

Really great photos, very interesting! Thanks a lot.

Yes indeed! I have saved the most of them onto my hard disk :) Thanks for sharing!

My pleasure! I'm glad I found them :okay:

I was pretty sure that Chrysler shot would be popular. It's a first for me too. :D

Ladies and Gentlemen , i present you,the KING :

http://www.indexstock.com/Store/ViewFullW.asp/ImageNum=311968&VOLID=sSaE`E1ZGWFF&SecNum=`L_T^PCJIGkg^}@5Xa6waPOZC/IndexStock-311968.jpg

GVNY > Thank you. I'm speechless...

http://www.net.md/nycity/sites/chrysler/midtown3.jpg

http://www.net.md/nycity/hyst/midtown2.jpg

WOW! thats all i can really say to describe these pics! some of the best relics out there imo

http://www.oranga.com/pics/gottscho.jpg

http://davehay.com/New.York.1967/cityscapes/thumb/900statue_of_liberty.jpg

http://davehay.com/New.York.1967/cityscapes/downtown_before_wtc.jpg

http://davehay.com/New.York.1967/cityscapes/bridges.jpg

Ladies and Gentlemen , i present you,the KING :

http://www.indexstock.com/Store/ViewFullW.asp/ImageNum=311968&VOLID=sSaE`E1ZGWFF&SecNum=`L_T^PCJIGkg^}@5Xa6waPOZC/IndexStock-311968.jpg
All three towers u/c are done by the same architect.

Found the following on pbase.

NYC 1958:

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002635/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002640/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002636/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002637/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002641/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002642/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002643/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002644/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002645/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002646/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mspjeff/image/36002639/original.jpg

guys im looking for pictures of NYC in the 70s.

around the time that it was a big mess in NYC.

thanx!

Lovely photos!

Does anyone have pictures of the old 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, especially at night with all the movie marques blazing? I've tried to find this shot, but have not been successful. The old 42nd Street of the 70's and 80-'s was the pits, but there were 15 or 16 theatres on that one little block, and it was kind of neat to stand in the middle of the street and see all of them lit up.

30s,Art Deco,NYC ,the golden age of beauty!
Great Thread! :okay:

Hopefully these haven't been posted yet, I found them on an image search.

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6275WallStreet.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6276BBNight.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6282b.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6282c.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6283aAerial.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6283b.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6284b.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6273NYCNight.jpg

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6282aTimesSquare.jpg

Best for last:

http://www.iphotocentral.com/Photos/VintageWorks_Images/Full/6274EmpireState.jpg

Wow, great pics Islander! Thanks for sharing! :)

Awesome! Love the old pix! NYC was even more exciting 60-70 years ago...It was the only truly great city outside Europe at that time...

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/nycbw/135.jpg
Some things never change.

guys im looking for pictures of NYC in the 70s.

around the time that it was a big mess in NYC.

thanx!


www.pbase.com do a search and see what you can find. :)

I liked the skyline back then better........the gothic & art deco masterpieces were not hidden behind the hastily clad monoliths of the 70's and 80's......


I have to agree..somehow New York had a much more attractive looking skyline then. Today they are some bold boxy skyscrapers...imho spoils the city skyline. You can construct modern scrapers and still have them respect the old and fit in well. That is not the case with most modern scrapers now.

Wow, I like the pic with the Empire State !!

guys im looking for pictures of NYC in the 70s.

around the time that it was a big mess in NYC.

thanx!

I recommend a book called "New York: Then and Now" by Edward Watson...it has a lot of good pix that go all the way back to the 1800s, but also quite a few from the early to mid-70s around the time it almost went bankrupt.

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2738/0145092pz.jpg

http://hometown.aol.com/ljgurke/images/prrtug.jpg

is that chrysler?

From my photo negative collection:
(but my website amazingskyscrapers.com is not yet ready)

http://www.oranga.com/pics0/scan11bb.jpg

PAN AM,

@ Cityskyscrapers, do you know when they took this pic? (year)

Awesome! Love the old pix! NYC was even more exciting 60-70 years ago...It was the only truly great city outside Europe at that time...
Hey now... let's not forget that by 1900, Chicago was the 5th largest city in the world. This place was no small fry...

http://www.poster.net/anonymous/anonymous-view-to-downtown-new-york-city-2104400.jpg

http://www.vazyvite.com/photo_us/newyork/building/1911_jersey.jpg

http://www.georgeglazer.com/maps/newyorkmaps/images/nycwoolworth.jpg

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U120887INP.jpg?size=67&uid={03cae37e-7c2e-4eb2-b1cf-dc671d97b21c}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/VV6228.jpg?size=67&uid={2d9f68d1-951c-4651-b699-6b3722e6beb6}

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http://www.essentialart.com/catch/Bettman_New_York_Skyline_1949.jpg

^love your signature dude :)

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Jackpot Swivle!

http://pix.auctiva.com/pix/04/79/75/NY_1928_view_of_Manhattan_HG1141.jpg

It is so cool to look at all these old pictures, b/c soo much has changed New York skyline is constantly under transformation, which I find really cool.

http://www.flare.net/users/e9ee52a/America%20leaving%20NYC-1.jpg

The Singer Building was such a classic, perhaps it is the gem that NYC lost...awsome collection here.

Excellent find, BigMac!

Amazing pictures! :)

For those curious, the name of the ship is theUnited States (http://www.greatoceanliners.net/index2.html).

http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10027000/10027908.jpg

Here are some old pics from Forgotten NY.

The smokestacks in Hunters Pt when u/c in 1907.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/pennstacks/1907.jpg

Painting of the East River in 1918 by Georgia O'Keeffe.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/pennstacks/Okeeffe_abc.jpg

The original Myrtle Ave station in Middle Village in 1906 before it was demolished decades later.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/metroave.jpg

John Niederstein’s hotel and restaurant in 1888, which is now slated for demolation just a few months ago.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/niedersteins1939.jpg

A 1942 look of the Arion Theater, now a pharmacy since the 1980's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/arion.jpg

St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church in 1860, in Middle Village.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/StMargarets_001.jpg

The same church after it was rebuilt in 1907.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/StMargarets_002.jpg

A 1947 view of E 148th St and Willis Ave in the Bronx, the tracks were removed in 1955.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/hub/hub1947.jpg

A look of 2505 Palisade Ave in the 1930's, now demolished.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/spuytenduyvil/2505palisademcny.jpg

Ewen Ave in the 1930's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/spuytenduyvil/2565ewenmcny.jpg

Riverdale Firehouse, now a bell tower.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/spuytenduyvil/firehouse.jpg

The Highbridge in the 1800's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/HIGH%20BRIDGE/ill13.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/HIGH%20BRIDGE/ill10.jpg

IRT kiosks at 28th St and 4th Ave, about 1910.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/fultonbrooklyn3/28kiosks%20copy.jpg

Construction/demolition shots of the Verrazanno-Narrows Br and Gowanus Expwy.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/keviecart.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/fthamparkway.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/stevezabelbus.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/bridgedeck.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/tower1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/gowanustrench2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/gowanustrench5.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/gowanustrench6.jpg

Shots of the Kings Hwy in Brooklyn in the early 1900's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kingshwy1900.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/khwy@brighton.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/oldelkingshwy.JPG
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kings@w38.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kings@flatbush1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kingshwy.40st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kingshwy.milllane.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kings@55.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/kingshwy/kingshwyutica2.jpg

McCarren Pk Pool in 1936.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/mccarrenpool/oldmccarren.jpg

The 2nd Ave El at Bowery St in 1905.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bowery/turkishtrophiesfull.jpg

Demolition of the 6th Ave El at 6th Ave near White/Church Sts.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/deepsix/6aveIND.jpg

John Sloan's 1928 painting of a scene at 6th Ave with Carmine St.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/deepsix/6avejohnsloan.jpg

A nigh view of 52nd (Swing) St at 6th Ave.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/deepsix/swingstreet.jpg

Croton Reservior in 1900.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Croton/Croton4.jpg

Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade in 1912.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/mmanhattanbridge/arch1912.jpg

Aftermath of the 1920 bombing at 23 Wall St.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/morgan/bomb.jpg

The Miller Hwy in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/12st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/13st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/14st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/17st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/18st%2Cjpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/19st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/21stb.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/miller/21st.jpg

Penn Station in 1925.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Penn%20Station/penn2.jpg

The concourse after it opened in 1910.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Penn%20Station/pennsta3.jpg

In front of the Hugh O'Neil Bldg at 22nd St and 6th Ave in around 1900.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Facades/oneill.jpg

The Denton House in Glendale, Queens in 1940.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/glendale/10.DentonHouse1940.jpg

Otto Herman Inc on 67th Pl at Myrtle Ave in Glendale in 1921.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/glendale/12.Herrmann1925.jpg

Philip Knack's florist shop, George Gundolff's hotel, Christian Kirschmann's saloon in 1906.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/glendale/21.lirrglendale.jpg

The original St Mary's Church in Queens.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/winfield2/1874_Church.jpg

Winfield Junction Tower in 1967.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/winfield2/Tower-Win-WinfieldJct-1967.jpg

A Winefield Homestead in the 1890's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/winfield2/annshouse.jpg

Victorious America at Winfield Plaza in 1926.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/winfield2/victoriousamerica.jpg

The 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Pk.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/worldsfair/oldfairmonorail.jpg

Postcards of old NYC.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/paterno.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/inwood.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/libby.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/bayrdtower.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/crescent.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/benson.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/75st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/bayridgeblvd.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/bayridgeroller.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/boropark1910.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/atl%26flatbush.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/bayrdgeel.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/enyrrsmall.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/garretson.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/collegept.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/bayside.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/murrayhill1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/murrayhill3.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/nianticclubhouseflushing.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/ozpk.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/staten1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/rollerrftgeorge.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/postcards/madisonsqclock.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/cityhallcrowd.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/cityhallandkiosk.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/cityhall1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/cityhallticket2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/cityhallmuni.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/14street.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/18street.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/23stcolor.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/23stores.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/subwaypostcards/23stpeople.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/nostalgia2/stillwell2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/nostalgia2/stillwell3.jpg

The opening of the 169th St IND Station in 1937 at Hillside Ave and Homelawn St.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/entrances/oldhillside.jpg

The Culver Shuttle facing demolition in 1985.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culvercortelyou1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culverftham1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culverplatform2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culver13thb.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culver13th.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culver15thb.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culverdahill.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culvercortelyou2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/culvershuttle/culvercortelyou3.jpg

Trainwreck on 9th Ave El at 53rd St in 1905.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/9thavel/wreckbig.jpg

Demolition of Anderson/Jerome Ave Station in 1966.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/9thavel/jerome.jpg

Franklin Shuttle durring the 60's and 70's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Franklin%20Ave%20station/65-fklin-fulton-ene.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Franklin%20Ave%20station/malbone1a%20copy.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Franklin%20Ave%20station/dean1973grotjean.gif

The Knickerbocker Hotel in the 1920's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Knickerbocker%20page/PCard3.jpg

Flatbush Ave Terminal in the 1930's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/flatbushterm1.jpg

Nostrand Ave platform in 1960.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/oldnostrand.jpg

East NY Station of the LIRR in 1940.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/oldeny.jpg

The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canarsie Line in 1917.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/oldenybayridge.jpg

Woodside Station before rennovation.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/oldwoodside.jpg

The original Jamaica LIRR Station.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/LIRRstations/oldjamaica.jpg

Elmhurst Station of the LIRR in 1909.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/pwbranch/LIRRelmhurst.jpg

The original Douglaston Station before 1962.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/pwbranch2/douglaston.jpg

The now-demolished Malba Station.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/whitestone/Malba.jpg

When 11th Ave had a steam engine with tracks.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/11TH%20AVENUE/11and41.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/11TH%20AVENUE/11and48.jpg

The Whitepot Underjump when it was active.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Rockaway%20Line/whitepot2.jpg

Woodhaven Junction in 1950.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Rockaway%20Line/woodhv.jpg

Vintage shots of the original SIRT.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/SIRT/SIRT%20Steamer2-1925.JPG
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/SIRT/sirt-mtl1.jpg

The NYW&B in the 1930's at the Dyre Avenue Station.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Westchester%20Branch/NYWBdyre2.JPG
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Westchester%20Branch/NYWBdyre1.JPG

The Highline at 14th St and 10th Ave when it was active.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Tenth%20Ave%20trestle/Westbeth.jpg

Bloomingdale ad on 3rd Ave at 60th St in 1976.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ADS/Bloomies/bloom2.jpg

Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ADS/Vitagraph/vitag.jpg

A look at 3rd Ave in 1888.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ADS/Assorted%20ads/coogan1.jpg

Shot of 46th St and 3rd Ave from the 1950's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/curvedmast/originalcurve.jpg

Merrick Rd (now Merrick Blvd) in the 1950's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/guywire1.jpg

New Lots and Pennsylvannia Aves, East NY in about 1950.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/newlots.jpg

Jamaica Ave near Crescent St and Elucid Ave in Brooklyn in 1946.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/jamaica1.jpg

Same area in the 1960's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/jamaica2.jpg

Cyrstal St at Liberty Ave, East NY in 1943.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/liberty1.jpg

Throgs Neck at E 177th St in the 1960's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/E177.jpg

Palmetto St near Orderdonck Ave, Queens in 1915.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/palmetto.jpg

Church Ave near E 52nd St in East Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1949.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/church3.jpg

W 6th St near the Van Sicklen Station, Brooklyn in 1946.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/shell1.jpg

The Circumferential (Belt) Pkwy after it was built.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/tpolelamps/shell2.jpg

Demolition of Type 24M "Corvington" castiron on DeKalb Ave, Ft Greene, Brooklyn in 1960.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/castirondemise/dekalb.jpg

New octagonal-shafted pole at Laffeyet St, Brooklyn in 1960.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/castirondemise/washington3.jpg

Snowstorm at Lafayette Ave at St James Pl, Brooklyn in 1960.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/castirondemise/washington1.jpg

Type 24M Covington lamp at Grand Ave near Prospect Pl, Brooklyn before 1960.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/castirondemise/grandav.jpg

Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn before the 1960's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/castirondemise/eastern.jpg

Old stoplight at 30th Ave in Astoria, Queens before demolition.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/30av.jpg

Hanging stoplight at 139th St and Edgecomb Ave before it was removed.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/wheellight.jpg

Harlem in 1982.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/harlem.jpg

Cyclops light at 30th St near FDR Dr.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/cyclops1.jpg

Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn in 1978.
ttp://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/schermerhornlite.jpg

Old control box in 1978.
ttp://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/controlbox.jpg

Retired light at 116th St, Queens.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/liberty.jpg

Underpass with stoplight in Edgemere, Queens in the 1980's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/stopclassics/underpass.jpg

The Washington Market in 1900.
ttp://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/westst.jpg

The Miller Hwy in the 1930's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/washmqrket.jpg

TriBeCa being born in the 1970's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/holdout3.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/holdout4.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/marketlamp.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/murray1.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/holdout2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/parkpl.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/crook.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/warren.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/warren2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/washmark1.jpg

Miller Hwy lamp before it's demolition in 1990 near 72nd St.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Market/exit.jpg

Walker/Centre Sts in 1980.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/walker4.jpg

Kent St and Pearl St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/cityhalla.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/kent.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/pinest.jpg

Morris St at Brodway in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/bwaymorris.jpg

Manhattan Br by Bowery St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/manhattanbridge.jpg

Crook lamp in front of the Twins when they were just completed.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/wtc.jpg

W 10th St at Greenwich St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/w10st.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/w10st1978.jpg

Albany/West Sts in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/albany.com

Mercer St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/mercerst.jpg

Spring/Washington Sts in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/spring.washington.jpg

Bleecker/Mercer Sts in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/bleeckermercer.jpg

Charles and W 4th Sts in 1980.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/base.jpg

Hudson/Huberst Sts in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/morecrooks/hudson.jpg

Van Cortland Pk, The Bronx in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Corvingtons%20page/vancort3.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Corvingtons%20page/vancort4.jpg

Manhattan Br at Bower St in 1982.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Corvingtons%20page/manhattanbr.jpg

Beaver St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Bishops%20crooks/beaverst.jpg

Rector St at Broadway in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Bishops%20crooks/rectorst.jpg

Crossbar at 143rd St at Riverside Dr in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Bishops%20crooks/riverside143a.jpg

Bishop Crooks on 18th St between 5th/6th Aves in 1982.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Bishops%20crooks/west18.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Bishops%20crooks/west18b.jpg

Greenwich/7th Aves in 1912.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Seventh%20Ave%20lamps/seventh.jpg

Type F lamp at 64th St at 65th Pl near 53rd Ave, Queens in the 1980's/
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Seventh%20Ave%20lamps/ridgewood.jpg

Twin lamp at 5th Ave beetween 15th/17th Sts before the 1980's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/5%2615.jpg

Rockaway Blvd at JFK Airport in 1986.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/rockblvd.jpg

Another twin lamp at 43rd St and Madison Ave in the mid 1960's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/43rdst.jpg

Alexander Hamilton Sq in 1980.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/hamiltonplace.jpg

A 1899 view of 14th St at 5th Ave.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/fifth.jpg

Queens Blvd in the 1930's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Twinlamp%20page/queensblvd.jpg

A shot of 62nd St at Woodside Ave, Queens in 1940.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/Stoplights/woodsy.jpg

LGA in the 1970's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/mid-period%20lamps/laguardiapole.jpg

Roosevelt Ave, Queens in 1980.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/mid-period%20lamps/roosevelt.jpg

Near the Brooklyn Br in the 1980's.
ttp://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/mid-period%20lamps/westinghousewhiteway.jpg

West St in 1978.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/mid-period%20lamps/weststdoublemast.jpg

Clinton Ct in 1915.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/greenwich/clintonct.jpg

Mineeta Pl before it was removed.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/greenwich/minettapl.jpg

There was a reason it was called Canal St.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/lowereast/canal2.jpg

Manhasset Pl, Brooklyn in the 1920's.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/Bklyn%20Necrology/manhasset2.jpg

An 1853 painting of DUMBO.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/Bklyn%20Necrology/mainst1817.JPG

Talman St before the Farrgaut Houses took it.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/Bklyn%20Necrology/talman2.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/Bklyn%20Necrology/talman1a.jpg

More too come...

Brooklyn Bridge u/c:

http://www.tvontario.org/mediakit/february2001/februaryimages/bridge1.jpg

Times Square 1905:

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Times%20Square%20NYC%20c1910.jpg

http://www.cvrma.org/pictures/MISC/dfrr4050_long_island_rr_barges_icy_east_river_nyc_1945.jpg

http://odin.let.rug.nl/~kastud/newyork/n/face02.gif

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8a37000/8a37300/8a37395r.jpg

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/images/line1684.jpg

http://www.sapiensman.com/old_pictures/New_York4%20(Woolworth).JPG

http://www.magny.org/pics/nyc/photo72009.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Carts%20with%20goods%201908.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5239/3b37639r1ls.png

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/cny0781.jpg

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts/solusdi1944d.jpg

You can go over here (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?threadid=78579) to see old pics of housing projects.

Manhattan from the air in 1949

http://img115.echo.cx/img115/8826/manair9vi.jpg

^
Amazing.

In the 1960's and 1970's the skyline would change forever when the Twins were erected as the WTB.

http://www.dfngallery.com/images/selwyn_wtc_504.gif
http://www.techno-science.net/Illustrations/Architecture/Gratte-ciels/Img/WTC_5.jpg
http://www.photonewyork.com/prod_images_large/2507241gyi.jpg
http://www.weniger-staat.de/Images/WTCconst.1.gif
http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/anglais-liens/siteoutils/images/americanicons/insitu/MaxiWorldtradecenter.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/wtc/construction-1.jpg
http://www.sohobluesgallery.com/miva/graphics/00000001/wtcconstructionw.jpg
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/fall02/images/towers.jpg
http://www.jman5.com/html/nytscience_files/18unde.1.jpe
http://www.aawe.org/aawe-grap/newsletters/septnews01/septnews01_files/image001.gif
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/images/inno_1971construction.jpg
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bodet/wtc/images/pics/wtc-construction1.jpg
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bodet/wtc/images/pics/wtc-construction2.jpg
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/div853/Program6_infra_files/image017.jpg
http://guardian.150m.com/wtc/wtc-beams.jpg
http://www.crisiscenterpro.com/WTC/wtc2a.jpg
http://www.michelangelo-raffaello.com/images/gallery/exteriors/Raffaello-WTC_in_costruzione1970(C_DeAngeli)s.jpg
http://www.wtc7.net/store/books/wakingup/samples/docs/p2/site1099c.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/images/sf_gallery_06.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/images/sf_gallery_05.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/images/sf_gallery_03.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/images/sf_gallery_02.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/images/sf_gallery_01.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/construction_2.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/knuckles_above_deck.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/tree_column_1.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/tree_column_2.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/hoist_panel.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/cons/wtc_1938.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/ssm/dsc00169.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/ssm/dsc00170.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/ssm/dsc00168.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mn1965/wtc45.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mn1965/wtc01.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mn1965/wtc05.jpg
http://www.siterrific.com/SullivanFineArts/twintowers.jpg
http://follenderwerks.com/galleries/sid_birns/big/FWSB05.jpg
http://follenderwerks.com/galleries/sid_birns/big/FWSB11.jpg
http://follenderwerks.com/galleries/sid_birns/big/FWSB13.jpg
http://follenderwerks.com/galleries/sid_birns/big/FWSB17.jpg
http://follenderwerks.com/galleries/sid_birns/big/FWSB18.jpg

http://www.bleakbeauty.com/dlm_portfolio/dlm_portfolio/large/01_l.jpg

http://www.bleakbeauty.com/dlm_portfolio/dlm_portfolio/large/39_l.jpg

http://www.bleakbeauty.com/dlm_portfolio/dlm_portfolio/large/174_l.jpg

http://www.bleakbeauty.com/dlm_portfolio/dlm_portfolio/large/19_l.jpg

http://www.bleakbeauty.com/dlm_portfolio/dlm_portfolio/large/13_l.jpg

WOW. Imagine being around in the 20's and 30's and having a skyline like that.

It's still hard for me to take that they are gone. But it's pics like those that are a reminder what a mistake the Freedom Tower is and that we want our twins back.

Tal, I respect your quest to get the tower rebuilt, but why must you spam this thread?

And while I am here, fantastic find Islander!

GVNY, I did not post those pics of the Twins u/c on this thread to state how much I want them to be rebuilt. These were just placed on to show old pics of NYC. If you looked at all the other pages, there are no pics with the Twins u/c, so these are the first ones. I will probably show other pics on this thread with construction phases for other skyscrapers as well. BTW, here is another shot with the Twins u/c, and this one is from the Smith-9th St station, plus notice the different trians being used at the same time they went up all the way to assembling the atenna.

http://images.nycsubway.org//i5000/img_5364.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i5000/img_5020.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i1000/img_1779.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i33000/img_33704.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i1000/img_1893.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i5000/img_5793.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i5000/img_5068.jpg
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?35642
http://images.nycsubway.org//i35000/img_35642.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i6000/img_6794.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i2000/img_2508.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i8000/img_8216.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i1/img_929.jpg

Well then I apologize for misreading your intentions. Nice photos.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7191/yankeestadium8vh.jpg

Just some more construction shots of the Twins that I just found today.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC33214s.jpg
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC33214xs.jpg
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC15984s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16409s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16411s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16017s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC33213s.jpg
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16026s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16027s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC15990s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16036s.JPG
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC15982s.JPG

-dope-

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/WTC1976/DSC16411s.JPG

I am surprised that nobody has posted pics of the subway when it was constructed.

http://www.nyhistory.org/tunnel/3.jpg
http://206.103.49.193/nyc/jpg/brt24.jpg
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/cen/images/history_photo_1.jpg
http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/whi_images_new/700003050079/0305001474-l.jpg
http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/whi_images_new/700003050002/0305000048-l.jpg
http://thetransitcoalition.us/Pictures/LAT20041017a.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23907.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23905.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23906.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23909.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23908.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23913.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23910.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23912.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i23000/img_23911.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org/dual/sa-jul1918-3.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org/dual/sa-jul1918-4.jpg

http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/frbpc/Aug04/usa/images/Brooklyn%20Bridge%20at%20Night_jpg.jpg

http://jorrie-toys.nl/images/Brooklyn%20bridge%20New%20York.jpg

http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/frbpc/Aug04/usa/images/Brooklyn%20Bridge%20nad%20Manhattan%20Skyline_jpg.jpg

http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/frbpc/Aug04/usa/images/Brooklyn%20Bridge_jpg.jpg

^^^^^ Gotham City at it's greatest.

A little piece of history of Lower Manhattan:

1906; Broadway & Cortlandt:

http://www.buse.be/brul/temp/1906%20broadway-cortlandt.jpg


1909; Broadway & Cortlandt, with the Singer Tower and the City Investing Bldg. (both 1908):
(Note: The Building on the corner is the same as in the previous picture. I think it was demolished at a later date, and replaced by another piece of City Investing Bldg. :P But I'm not sure 'cause I can't find any pictures of this corner from a later date. So if anyone ever finds one of the 50's or 60's, please post it)

http://www.buse.be/brul/temp/1909%20broadway-cortlandt.jpg


1912; A little to the south of the previous pictures, with Trinity Bldg. (1904) and US Realty Bldg. (1907) in the front. At the bottom of the picture is probably the building site for the Equitable Bldg (1915).:

http://www.buse.be/brul/temp/1912%20Trinity-US%20realty.jpg


Not to long ago, from the Twin Towers. One Liberty Plaza (1973) is were the Singer Tower & City Investing Bldg. used to be. Trinity & US Realty Buildings tot the right:

http://www.buse.be/brul/temp/Liberty%20Plaza.jpg

In the 1960's and 1970's the skyline would change forever when the Twins were erected as the WTB.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bodet/wtc/images/pics/wtc-construction1.jpg
http://www.wtc7.net/store/books/wakingup/samples/docs/p2/site1099c.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/enr/tree_column_2.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/ssm/dsc00170.jpg


Does anyone have anymore of these crane close ups. These are brilliant photo's of our Favco 2700's. :)

Buse, fantastic find!

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/bbolc183.jpg

http://www.interet-general.info/IMG/emigrants-46.jpg

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h94000/h94785.jpg

Here are some pics that I found on nycsubway.org (http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/2ndave-el/) on the 2nd Ave El.

34th St
http://images.nycsubway.org//i15000/img_15501.jpg

57th St
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17415.jpg

Queensboro Br
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17423.jpg

92nd St
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17417.jpg

121st St
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17412.jpg

23rd St
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17413.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17414.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i31000/img_31263.jpg

Chatham Sq
http://images.nycsubway.org//i17000/img_17457.jpg

Fantastic find!

City of Dreams

http://www.timecamera.com/images/lusitaniasm.jpg

http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/graphics/cpe_lusitania_01.jpg

http://www.titanicnorden.com/skepp/lusbild/lusitania4.jpg

http://www.titanicnorden.com/skepp/lusbild/lusitania6.jpg

http://www.lostliners.com/Liners/Cunard/Lusitania/Images/lucy_lastNY2.jpg

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/newyork/postcards/skylin.jpg

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/pcoimages/809674W.JPG

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/1906-1909/1909%20HF%20NY%20skyline%20&%20Flyer.jpg

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/1906-1909/1909%20HF%20Flyer%20approaches%20NY.jpg

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thoma/Graphics/ShipsPorts/CastleGardenSkyline95-10.gif


http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10113000/10113261.jpg

http://www.poster-shop.com/images/BW14LAb.JPG

http://www.poster.net/anonymous/anonymous-the-brooklyn-bridge-1932-5300119.jpg

http://www.photographsdonotbend.com/artists/albok/nyskyline.jpg

http://www.photography-museum.com/shbridge.jpg

http://www.forbes.com/images/2001/09/13/skyscraper_1_400x288.jpg


http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc1800/sc1890/10000/images/10084a2.jpg

http://www.tamarin-photo.com/f_stein/photo/stein20.JPG

http://www.essentialart.com/catch/Bettman_New_York_Skyline_1949.jpg

http://www.brucesilverstein.com/AKLater/Kertesz.weather(lg).JPG

http://www.artshole.co.uk/arts/artists/norton%20m%20hintz/image16.jpg.jpg

http://family.ragozzino.net/photos/mulberry_st_1900.jpg

http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/m197701770030.jpg

http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/m197701770033.jpg

http://odin.let.rug.nl/~kastud/newyork/n/face02.gif

http://www.elderweb.com/history/images/4a18585r.jpg

Certainly the greatest city in the world.

http://uncommonjourneys.com/pages/archives/usextr1.jpg

http://uncommonjourneys.com/pages/archives/france8.jpg

http://uncommonjourneys.com/pages/archives/nmlvnyc.jpg

http://uncommonjourneys.com/pages/archives/hal2.jpg

http://www.6913th.org/PH/gifs5/SSUStatesNY.jpg

http://www.morehousegallery.com/images/inventory/600/stieglitz%20a%2000130.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Trinity%20churchyard%201908.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Broadway%201908.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Woolworth%20Building%201908.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Times%20Square%20NYC%20c1910.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/central%20park2.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/central%20park.jpg

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/St%20Paul%20and%20Park%20Row%20buildings%201910.jpg

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/LW/B/B/H/V/_/lwbbhv_.jpg

http://www.rgross.de/jpg/empire.jpg

http://pro.corbis.com/images/VV1357.jpg?size=67&uid={7b6e1b02-1bfb-4497-b354-0a01e8bc3a84}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/IH059799.jpg?size=67&uid={2e91a503-1bfb-49da-b817-d65bc868bc68}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U509366ACME.jpg?size=67&uid={58e2cf88-b7ae-49fc-8b91-1529804bc8e2}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-15367601.jpg?size=67&uid={706a927f-ec1d-4b05-9ad1-4bc38de1ccf4}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/AAJK001041.jpg?size=67&uid={a78b4785-743b-4144-a147-19d6b08548bf}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/AAHU001098.jpg?size=67&uid={169e7276-7e87-4e7d-944d-497381505ccc}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U781977INP.jpg?size=67&uid={2f6bf59a-f256-490a-8314-65fbce5f86f1}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/BRK192.jpg?size=67&uid={8c99a4d1-79f8-41ec-b9fe-c44916bdad9a}

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I love old New York.

A lot more photos coming!

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I love this city! It is hard to imagine that most of these photos are between the years 1890-1940.

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I love this thread. New York sure was a great city in the 20th century. In fact, she owned it. I am just worried this wonder city of dreaming spires isn't the same think big, build big city it was a century ago that left the world the stunned....

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U18346INP.jpg?size=67&uid={6ff05e58-09ba-4dec-8715-57f65215a3ea}

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/south_ferry.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/bronx_park.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/central_park.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/madison001.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/people001.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/subway001.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/battery_park.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi_1.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/coney_island.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/orchard_street.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/playing_water.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/skyline_von_ellis_island_aus.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/window_view.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave_2.jpg

New York certainly had a better skyline decades ago. The rise of Chase Manhattan scarred the city's silhouette forever.

http://www.civil.columbia.edu/~ling/others/manhattan-1930.jpg

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/4900/0145097dg.jpg

http://www.salship.se/gripny.jpg

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/735/0145097hd.jpg

Truly amazing, those are the dugs baws!!! New York must have seemed the centre of the Universe back then, a new Babylon with it's own set of the the 7 Ancient Wonders of the Old World transposed onto the Steel Wonders of the New World. Best city in the US I think :) Some of those old street scenes (the ones with buidings less than 10 storeys) look like parts of Glasgow city centre do now!

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/05.jpghttp://www.amybphotography.com/Arch%20&%20Towers.jpg

Another great contribution from Ablarc:

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/colcir/1920.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/colcir/20b.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/colcir/20c.jpg

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/colcir/20a.jpg

http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10059000/10059800.jpg

I am waiting for the 12th page to post more photos.

Was the Circle Building demolished to make way for the AOL-Time Warner Center,or was it already gone when thy started to build AOL?

I couldn't find any information that could back up what I believe, but I think the building was indeed demolished before Time Warner Towers went up.

http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/Images/pagepix/wallstr.jpg

http://www.americasstory.com/assets/aa/stanton/aa_stanton_family_2_e.jpg

We must be very close to page 12.

Does anyone have a favourite photo from the thread so far?

My favourite photos are of Lower Manhattan in all of her spire, skyscraping glory.

http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/alumni/history/galleries/images/1940-1949_5.jpg

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8480/nytsailors5wv.jpg

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1827/918522vh.jpg

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8094/untitled3it.png

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1144/untitled2ry.png

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4427/untitled8ga.png

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Great pictures GVNY :okay:
I especially liked the one that showed GCS without the crappy Pan Am behind it...building that was such a crime for this city...
This thread is something that cannot be missed by New York lovers like me.Thanks a lot :)

Great pictures GVNY :okay:
I especially liked the one that showed GCS without the crappy Pan Am behind it...building that was such a crime for this city...
This thread is something that cannot be missed by New York lovers like me.Thanks a lot :)


Well I appreciate you writing in it! I need more responses so I don't flood the thread with photos.

And I agree, The Pan Am was certainly a crime. Almost all of the modern style buildings in the city are arguable crimes. I wish we had kept the set back law and created a style code for new towers to be built only in classic architectural styles. That would have made our city very beautiful today. We sure had an amazing skyline in the past. It had meaning, beauty, and wasn't a heaping hulk of buildings like today.

I love looking at these photos. Although I posted them, I didn't go through them. Some are an extremely pleasant surprise. They are great!

We must be close to page 13.

EXCELLENT PHOTO UPDATE COMING!
I got to find out if it was already posted....I hope not!

Let me just say it is in colour.

I just found out, that part of these photos was indeed posted on this thread, so I did my best to weed those out and put in place the photos not seen. The rest of the set of photos can be seen on page 6.

These are just fantastic. I know there must be more colour photographs of New York out there somewhere at this time.

Finally, once we get to page 13, I will add some more photos! We seriously have hundreds more. So please be patient while I wait for the next page.

And yes, I am rambling on with the intent of getting this page over. Are you still reading? Why? I don't really understand why you would read all of this nonsense. It really isn't important at all.

Here is a New York description I quite like:

When it comes to the art of seduction, New York has two cards up its sleeve: charm and spontaneity. People often fall in love with what they came looking for -- the Empire State Building, lit up in red, white, and blue; Central Park under a blanket of snow, its trees sparkling as if encased in crystal; or the Statue of Liberty, which neither cliché nor cheap souvenir can render common. For those who grew up with glossy magazine and soft-focus film images of New York, standing in front of one of its landmarks is still a moment of discovery. The remarkable thing is that New York looks even better up-close, in person. "It's just like the movies!" is a constant delighted refrain.

No matter how grandiose or beautiful New York's sights are, their combined scale may seem overwhelming, and that's when irrepressible human endeavor steps in to tame its environment. Whether you want to call it spontaneity or chaos, there are a million different New York moments that can catch you off-guard and sweep you off your feet. It could happen in Grand Central Terminal upon witnessing doo-wop harmonists stop rushing commuters in their tracks with a rich serenade. You could turn a corner and run into a full-blown Russian winter festival or a production assistant barking orders to clear the way for a film shoot. Your moment of enchantment could be Fellini-esque, when you catch sight of an old man in a suit slowly pedaling a multicolor, tinsel-wrapped Huffy bike the wrong way down Park Avenue. Anything can happen here -- stuff so strange, you couldn't make it up.

Change is a constant in this city, so when people ask with concern from afar, "How is New York doing?" the answer is both "moving on" and "the same as ever." The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack was the lowest of blows upon an icon of the city and all of its hard-working, wise-cracking, loving, and beloved people. The enormous loss of life, followed by a spate of anthrax scares, left normally tough-skinned and confident New Yorkers feeling vulnerable.

But New York is still the city that never sleeps. The Broadway shows are larger than life, the art exhibitions open your eyes to beauty and possibility, the orchestral concerts and ballets can move you to tears, and the shopping opportunities are amazing. Not to mention that the pizzas and bagels, available 24 hours throughout Manhattan, are the best in the nation.

From: Fodor's

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I just found a new place where old New York City photos are available. I shall be posting those as well.

Finally, page 13 must be right around the corner!

Goodness, there are so many!

I have only searched 109 of 1,980 pages in this collection of old New York photos.

A lot coming soon on page 13!

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P02308.jpgI can't describe how happy I am after see this picture.I always loved this building and I have lots of pictures of it,but I have never seen a colour picture of it taken from the street level.Thank you so much GVNY and keep the good working on this thread!

Fantastic! I am glad I gave you something of worth on this thread. I too, love the Park Row buildings. Some more, although not in colour, should be coming up very soon.

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I just said screw it. I hope no one has a problem with all the pictures...but I just wanted to post them.

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Police Officer Holding Attempted Suicide
Original caption: 8/24/1953-New York, NY: Patrolman Stephen Kramer, balanced precariously with one foot on the window sill and one on the fire escape, holds onto the wrist of Matti Totkowska, 39, after grabbing her as she leaped from the window of her second-story apartment at 508 9th Avenue. He held her for interminable minutes until other rescuers pulled them both to safety. She was admitted to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
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