[erbse]

Could you please credit your sources? I'm interested in where you got those from.


This one is utterly amazing: http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/5083/35747570.jpg

Showing the life of the simple streetworkers and a whole different world than we find today.
Do you have more of such streetscapes?

 

[nerd4life]

^^^^^^
my hats of to those steelworkers who worked fearlessly at such amazing heights.

 

[desertpunk]

Lower Manhattan aerial c.1947 (note: site clearance for Brooklyn Battery Tunnel lower left)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

Columbia University 1957

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

67th St. and Broadway

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

Empire State Spire looking towards Chelsea

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

Hellgate Bridge, Queens 1947

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

H.M.S. Queen Mary arrives 1936

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

Fulton Fish Market 1938

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nys_archives/

all photos: the New York State Archives

 

[SoroushPersepolisi]

one of the livest and most amazing threads ever

new york was just so amazing

it still is, but those days were far better

 

[3tmk]

I had no idea we had trams in our streets a century ago!

 

[redbaron_012]

Ok, I only took this pic in 2007 but was amazed to see these tram tracks heading for buildings that had been there a very long time........


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[desertpunk]

George Washington Bridge Construction


Tower construction 1927

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

Cable crew, George Washington Bridge 1930

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/

Cable spinner GWB 1930

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/

Cables

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/

 

[Celt67]

Fifth Avenue. Easter, 1913

 

[Celt67]

Manhattan Skyline just over a century ago. Panorama.

 

[VelesHomais]

Wow. Both are incredible photographs.

 

[desertpunk]

Ithink the big pano is from 1908 due to the completed Singer Tower and the still under construction Manhattan Bridge. Really nice! :cheers:

 

[Celt67]

The Singer Building. 1910.


Manhattan 1915


Brooklyn Bridge 1909


Harsh life in New York, 1905. They didn't have burnt out cars back then, just dead horses.


Excavations for the Grand Central Station begin 1908.

 

[Celt67]

West 38th street from 5th Avenue, 1908


Williamsburgh Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn.


Bananas arrive at the NYC docks, 1905 style.


Cold winter. 1905.


Warmer conditions...this time 1909.

 

[erbse]

Geil. :drool:

 

[rd77]

The Singer Building. 1910.

Wow, this shot is just amazing! I love 19th century/early 20th century architecture, so this shot is fantastic. Apart from that huge block on the right, do any of these buildings still exist today?

 

[erbse]

Yeah it's amazing, but please STOP quoting photos that can be found on the same page! hno:

 

[rd77]

Yeah it's amazing, but please STOP quoting photos that can be found on the same page! hno:

I just wanted to make clear which picture it was that I had a question about, you will note that I left all the others out...

 

[Chadoh25]

Fabulous!

 

[erbse]

I just wanted to make clear which picture it was that I had a question about, you will note that I left all the others out...

Sure. But you can leave the [ IMG ] tags out then, so it remains as a link.
It's so annoying to have all those image quotes around SSC...
Totally spoiling fantastic threads like this one.

 

[Celt67]

New York circa 1908. "Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline.


The Brooklyn Bridge Promenade and Manhattan Terminal in 1907 amid a forest of billboards facing the trains. The domed structure is the New York World building.


New York circa 1900. The Bowery near Grand Street.


New York and the East River circa 1910. Looking east from the Singer Tower.


New York circa 1913. The Singer Building. Rising in the distance, the Woolworth Building under construction.