Old Pics New York City! - Page 4

July 1st, 2003, 02:03 AM

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...

AtlanticaC5 · July 1st, 2003, 08:35 PM

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

The Messiah · July 28th, 2003, 12:41 AM

This pic came from this new postcard thread.

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

New Jack City · October 8th, 2003, 11:54 PM

AMAZING pictures!

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

The Messiah · October 9th, 2003, 12:16 AM

Old and New City Halls and World Building, New York City.

New York Skyscrapers and Harbor from Woolworth Tower.

RCA Building, NYC - 1939 (Pub.: Seidman Photo Services)

Empire State Building, NYC (Pub.: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co.)

Kommentare · October 9th, 2003, 12:32 AM

Mmmmmm.......good old Gotham.......

Kommentare · October 9th, 2003, 12:36 AM

I digged all over SSC,and found more pics

:

RafflesCity · October 9th, 2003, 12:37 AM

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

Liz L · October 9th, 2003, 12:54 AM

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, Messiah, and thank you very much!

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....

)

October 9th, 2003, 10:27 AM

Quote:

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

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

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...0&pagenumber=4

Martin S · October 9th, 2003, 11:12 PM

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.'

GreatSky · December 12th, 2003, 12:56 AM

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

Cliff · December 14th, 2003, 04:33 AM

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

Buster · December 14th, 2003, 08:33 PM

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.

New Jack City · December 17th, 2003, 12:17 AM

This one deserves a sticky!

cityskyscrapers · January 14th, 2004, 10:19 PM

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.

NorthStar77 · January 15th, 2004, 04:07 PM

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!

The Messiah · January 20th, 2004, 01:14 AM

These pics are part of a book wich you can see here

Singer Building

The Messiah · January 26th, 2004, 12:19 PM

NYC, 1936

NYC, 1905.

Rockefellercenter

Woolworth Building

A cool stamp of the ESB

Rotterdam · February 27th, 2004, 08:25 AM

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

July 1st, 2003, 08:35 PM	#62
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July 28th, 2003, 12:41 AM	#63
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October 9th, 2003, 12:16 AM	#65
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October 9th, 2003, 12:32 AM	#66
Kommentare Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Kaunas, Lithuania Posts: 447 Likes (Received): 0	Mmmmmm.......good old Gotham....... __________________ X

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July 1st, 2003, 02:03 AM	#61
johonbravo Guest Posts: n/a Likes (Received):	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...

October 8th, 2003, 11:54 PM	#64
New Jack City User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 5,651 Likes (Received): 2	AMAZING pictures! Some of these are VERY rare and finally some decent Singer Building pictures!

October 9th, 2003, 12:37 AM	#68
RafflesCity By Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S I N G A P O R E Posts: 26,215 Likes (Received): 2	Amazing find Messiah! You should add some of them to the ROTs!

October 9th, 2003, 12:54 AM	#69
Liz L Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 403 Likes (Received): 0	ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, Messiah, and thank you very much! 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.... ) __________________ Liz L Art Deco rules!

October 9th, 2003, 11:12 PM	#71
Martin S LIVERPOOL England Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,528 Likes (Received): 47	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.'

December 12th, 2003, 12:56 AM	#72
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December 14th, 2003, 04:33 AM	#73
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December 14th, 2003, 08:33 PM	#74
Buster Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Shantytown Posts: 830 Likes (Received): 0	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. __________________ Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail. . .

December 17th, 2003, 12:17 AM	#75
New Jack City User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 5,651 Likes (Received): 2	This one deserves a sticky!

January 14th, 2004, 10:19 PM	#76
cityskyscrapers Images of cityscapes Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rotterdam Posts: 288 Likes (Received): 0	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. __________________ Photo galleries: amazing urban

January 15th, 2004, 04:07 PM	#77
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January 20th, 2004, 01:14 AM	#78
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