The Museum of the City of New York has released a ton of photos of the Manhattan Railway Company, which operated the city’s elevated railway lines at the turn of the 20th century. Squeee!
h/t @Gothamist
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May 13, 2013
April 25, 2013
The Woolsworth Building turned 100 yesterday
March 12, 2013
1899 - Fifth Avenue at night, looking north from 44th St. The artist is Charles W Jefferys, This illustration comes courtesy of the New York Public Library’s amazing digital archive.
February 11, 2013
Apparently, it’s always been hard to find a cab during New York blizzards.
1893 ‘Winter on Fifth Avenue’ - Alfred Stieglitz, via retronaut
January 3, 2013
Manhattan’s skyline, 1880 to 1932.
This amazing series of photos was featured in TIME Magazine’s LIFE Aug 31, 1942 issue, “New York’s Skyline Sits for a Long Portrait.” The photos come from two amateurs of the Pierrepont family: John Jay Pierrepont, “a wealthy New Yorker”, was inspired from his Brooklyn rooftop view and took hundreds of photos from the vantage point until his death in 1923. His great-nephew, Abbot Low Moffat, continued the tradition until the Pierrepont home was bought by the city of New York to turn into a public park.
When Pierrepont took the first photos in 1880, church steeples and ship masts are the tallest structures, with the most recognizable landmark being Trinity Church on lower Broadway. By 1930, the lower Manhattan skyline was dominated by towers after the building boom.
Read the original article at Google Archives.
November 26, 2012
Check out this feature from LIFE Magazine back when the U.N. Secretariat building was constructed. The caption/deck reads: “Windows of late-working secretary-general’s office look west over city 38th floor”. Via the Google LIFE archive, Mar 26, 1951.
November 15, 2012
How New Yorkers on Fifth Avenue handled the snow, in 1905. Via the @NYPL’s endlessly fascinating digital archive.
Photo credit to: Detroit Photographic Co.
November 14, 2012
Times Square apparently was quite pleasant, circa sometime in the 1910s, as depicted on this postcard. Part of the New York Public Library’s awesome searchable digital archive of hundreds of thousands of documents and images.
November 12, 2012
Coney Island, 1944. Photo taken by Marie Hansen for LIFE, via Google Image LIFE archive. Check out Coney Island’s Amazon Wishlist for Sandy relief here.
November 5, 2012
“The Dark Lane of the Bowery” via LIFE magazine (archived by Google Books), Apr. 14, 1941. Photos by Andreas Feininger.
October 22, 2012
It’s so…empty: Manhattan’s skyline on March 26, 1936. One of the 800,000 digital files in the New York Public Library’s free searchable archive.
October 18, 2012
Visitors at the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens visit “the City of Tomorrow”. Photograph by David E. Scherman for LIFE. Via the LIFE image archive at Google. Also, check out the LIFE tumblr for other amazing images from their iconic archive.
October 17, 2012
Did you know that the (awesome, tech-savvy) New York Public Library has a digitized, searchable, free archive of 800,000 historical images? Here’s one of them: City Arabesque, from roof of 60 Wall Tower, Manhattan. (June 09, 1938) by Berenice Abbott
October 11, 2012
May Day Parade in Union Square, 1913. via Library of Congress and Bain News Service.
October 10, 2012
Oct. 2, 1963: Probationary firemen participated in a drill described in The Times “one of the biggest — but safest — ‘fires’ in town.” Audience members laughed and cheered while 30 people were “rescued” by firemen at a five-story tower on Welfare Island. The fire college site was dedicated by the city and was said to be “the finest” in the world at the time. Photo: Meyer Liebowitz/The New York Tmes
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