Old Pics New York City!

[The Messiah]

Ehm....wow 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

[GVNY]

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

[GVNY]

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.


504-506 Broome St. Ancient.


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.


From Jersey, the classic skyline view.


Subway Portrait. Walker Evans, 1938.


Artists and Poets, Washington Sq., 1939


42nd Street Beauties, looking west, 1939.


Clipper, 1939. Europe in 29 hours.


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


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


Abandoned in the downpour, 1939. West Side.


Forty-second Street.


42nd Street with Lincoln Zephyr.


Sixth Avenue El, 1940.


Downtown from Empire State. Andre Kertesz, 1940.

1940 Photos by Andreas Feininger


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


The Bowery.


Bryant Park.


Downtown Skyport with Cities Service Tower.



The original twin towers.


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


New York’s greatest walk.


Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.


Girlies.


Downtown gunsmith.


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


Elevated.


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.


Elevated station, Downtown.


Underwear and kosher chickens.


What happens when you burn coal.


A Greek temple burning coal.


Flatiron with Fifth Avenue bus.


Garment District stacked factories steam hats.


Arm wrestling in Harlem.


Harlem night club.


Lower East Side, tenement city, looking north.


Streetwall: Park Avenue South.


Raymond Hood, master of Deco.


Seventh Avenue.


South Street, now a theme park and mall.


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


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.


Classic skyline view with America, junior edition United States.


Downtown from Jersey.


Midtown from Jersey.


Horror vacui, Hebrew style.


The hats match the canopies. Macy’s, 34th St.


Nassau St. looking north.


Normandie berthed. Feininger, 1941


Rector St.

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


The classic pyramid, here with harbor traffic and puffs of pollution.


Suits on the pier. What are these men doing?


Fulton St. from South St.


Broome St. and Baruch Pl., Lower East Side. Not a sidewalk café.


Lower East Side: street as living room.


Lower East Side: street as conference room


Municipal Building, Courthouse and Jail. Big arch seemed futile before El removed.
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, 1941.

Charles Cushman photos, 1942.


Lunch, 5 Cents: looking up Broadway to Singer Building.


Collecting the Salvage on Lower East Side.


Pearl Street, 1942.


Central Park. Feininger, 1943.


The Fashionable People [harassed by the homeless]. Weegee, 1943.


Murder in Hell’s Kitchen. Weegee, 1944.


Coney Island. Weegee, 1945.


The photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig).


Hole where plane (B-25) hit Empire State Building, 1945.

Andre Kertesz photos


Brooklyn, 1947. Andre Kertesz.


Lower 5th Avenue. Kertesz, 1948.


East River Esplanade. Kertesz, 1948.


Metropolitan Life and Empire State. Kertesz, 1950.


City. Kertesz, 1952.


Skyline with Rooster. Kertesz, 1952.


Washington Square. Kertesz, 1954.


A city of spires. Just before the flattop invasion, late fifties.


First view of Manhattan from the Queen Elizabeth, 1953. The module of the window.


Liberty, 1954.


Times Square with James Dean. Dennis Stock, 1955.


Balcony. Kertesz, 1957.


Guggenheim under construction, 1958. Car and building share design philosophy.


MacDougal Alley. Kertesz,1958.


Sixth Avenue. Kertesz, 1959.


Man Sleeping. Kertesz, 1960.


Whitehall street from Peter Minuit Plaza near Battery. Cushman, 1960.

Four photos by Kertesz


Rooftop, 1961.


Harlem, 1963.


Washington Square, 1969. Edge of Arch at left.


Washington Square Arch, 1970.


Cleopatra Jones and Woody Allen,1971.


Lying Men, Washington Sq. Kertesz, 1974.


Kertesz, 1979.


World Trade Center. Dennis Stock, 2001.

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Three New York Buildings


Chrysler.


Chrysler.

Two Greatest Beaux-Arts Buildings Demolished:


The main waiting room of Penn Station. Groined vaults in coffered stone.


The Baths of Caracalla.


The way to the trains.


Groined vaults in steel and glass.


Seventh Avenue. McKim, Meade and White, architects. 1903-63. The building made it to age 60.


613 feet!! In 1908!

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Ernest Flagg was the architect.


This building also made it to age 60 [1908-68].


Another five years and they would have preserved it.


French Beaux-Arts.


Vacant and awaiting demolition.


From Broadway.


Queen Elizabeth and skyline. Andre Kertesz, 1958.

[GVNY]

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.


Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, 1938: dressed to the nines. Berenice Abbott.


65 West 39th Street, Garment District, 1938.


420 East 23rd Street, 1938.


View from 60 Wall Street, 1938. Abbott.


The mound and the spikes again, this time from the Brooklyn Bridge. Abbott, 1938.


4, 6, 8 Fifth Avenue. Abbott, 1938.


131-137 Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights. Abbott, 1938.


The spires of Midtown, 1939.


Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge and Midtown, 1939: four times a day as the river’s flow changes direction: a bridge over troubled water.


Broad Street. Andreas Feininger photo, 1940.


Polo Grounds, Eighth Avenue at 159th Street, 1940: where the Giants played before they moved to San Francisco. Demolished 1964; Harlem River in background.


Cortland Street and Ninth Avenue El, 1940.

Photos by Andreas Feininger, 1940


Downtown.


Franklin Square El.


South Street.


View from Cities Service Tower, 70 Pine Street.


West Street.


Times Square.


William Street. Buick.


Seaplanes landed in East River at Skyport.


Williamsburg Bridge.


Times Square.


The right slenderness ratio for a skyscraper; could be 200 stories and it would look right. Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn.


Browsing the ladies. Times Square.

Ethnic New York by Feininger, 1940

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Jewish (left); Greek

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Italian; Mulberry Street, Little Italy

Five by Feininger, 1941


Day Line.


Employment Agency. Depression would soon be cured by War.


Looking South toward Brooklyn.


Normandie.


West Side Highway at 125th Street.

Color Photos by Charles W. Cushman, 1941


Fulton Fish Market.


Immigrant Woman.


Lower East Side.


Lower East Side.
1942


End of Broadway.


“Lower First Avenue is Spruce Looking”


Chinatown.


McSorley’s, East Village.


“Poverty, Young and Old, Black and White”


Street Scene. This one makes me think of Hopper.


Queensboro Bridge. Kertesz, 1947.


Queen Elizabeth, 1948.


Fireboats greet the SS United States, 1949.


Times Square looking south towards Times Building, 1949. Movie, 3rd Man one of the great thrillers, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.


Andre Kertesz, 1950.


United States, 1953.

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Washington Square Park. Kertesz, 1953 and 1954.


Ebbets Field, 1956. Home of the Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved to L.A.


Yankee Stadium, 1956.


Times Square, 1957.

Six by Kertesz

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1959 (left); 1962.

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Washington Square, 1962 (left); 1969.


MacDougal Alley, 1967.


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:






An undercover cop arrests a mugger. This photo is not staged.



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




Abandoned West Side Highway, a portion of which had collapsed.


Abandoned…

[GVNY]

I hope that helped a bit Messiah.

[7 World Trade]

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...

[GVNY]

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.

[BigMac]

Great pictures, GVNY!

[GVNY]

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

[GVNY]

This skyline sure did blow the world away last century.

[swivel]

[Dennis]

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

[kuikentje]

what a great foto -album
NY=DREAMCITY

[swivel]

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

[Barsby]

Great pics guys, keep em coming!

[nygirl]

My favorites




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.



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

THIS ONE IS MY ULTIMATE FAVORITE:



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.

[swivel]

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!







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I'm rich biitch!

[Dennis]

AMAZING pics, thanx for posting!

[New Jack City]

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

[Den Haag AvW]

Really great photos, very interesting! Thanks a lot.