Old new york city

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s. Then: Battery Park (1922) Now Then: Lower Manhattan No...

This is a great pic The Third ave and Second Ave El's met here That is a Forney steam engine pulling the coaches Third ave El Interior of a Blue Bird Brooklyn El construction Connecting the culver

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare going through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It stretches from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square North at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. It is considered among the most expensive and best shopping streets in the world. And here is a collection of vintage pictures capturing everyday life of this street through the years. Winter on Fifth Avenue, 1892 5th Avenue and 59th Street, New York City, 1897 5th…

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Another special example of the distinctive buildings built so often in the city: 46 W. 56th St., north side, east of Sixth Ave., ca. 1912. The building is still there and retains many of its features, with the added adornment of a Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the ground floor. This was the Goraud Building, named after Jackson Gouraud who bought it around 1908. It was one of several limestone mansions that had replaced the neighborhood's "comfortable rows of identical brownstones," according to…

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library the plot old photos of New York City on an interactive map.

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