Really cool pictures. I really like the brought back, far out pictures of the city skyline.
Thanks for sharing!
Ben
Printable View
Really cool pictures. I really like the brought back, far out pictures of the city skyline.
Thanks for sharing!
Ben
Wow, I forgot how defining 30 Rock used to be from the Hudson River. Manhattan seems so much narrower before all of the office space west of 6th Avenue was built up. You can even see 570 Lexington -- all the way over on Lexington Avenue -- in all its glory from the West side. What a different skyline.
The following are from 1962
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/70...9d710268_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/70...95954921_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/70...c8ab6b61_b.jpg
These are from 1958 & 59 (close enough for this thread, I guess)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/84...bb181200_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/84...7ddc5593_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/84...45133d93_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/84...a4019a67_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/81...b63f971d_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/81...7496cf46_b.jpg
A1960's lower Manhattan concept model
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1181/...d2cdbb15_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1181/...034ac428_b.jpg
Thank you for taking the time, and having the patience to post all of these wonderful photographs. Particularly the last batch. They led me to the others which I would have missed because they were posted during my absence.
Damn, this thread has been vacant for a year....time flies. Here are some more b/w and color courtesy of Straatis/Flickr
1960 Washington Market
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/...a786efbf_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/...7f7ef425_o.jpg
1960 Brooklyn on a snowy night
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/...13f7b05d_o.jpg
Chinatown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/...b4d30d88_o.jpg
The Village
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/...7c3e26cc_o.jpg
Tudor City
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/...af53053d_o.jpg
165 Broadway, w/ Singer Building on left (demolished in 1968:-(
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/...014d7ef8_o.jpg
More Singer
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/...a632c8bb_o.jpg
Singer interior during demolition
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/...462fdd6d_o.jpg
Hard Hat rally(from Gary Winogrand)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/...9b061116_o.jpg
Village Gate (herb Snitzer)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3139/...9102320c_o.jpg
Greenwich & Harrison (Victor Laredo)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/...01f123ea_o.jpg
NYC is invaded
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/...ab56da44_o.jpg
Santas on Houston (Susan McCartney)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/...673f571b_o.jpg
Crowd at Warwick Hotel to see the Beatles
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/...b8cfbc7f_o.jpg
Bob Dylan
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/...aec8a538_o.jpg
Children in Harlem Apt w/ Triboro Bridge in distance
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/...bc90417f_o.jpg
1968 (Garry Winogrand)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/...747c1152_o.jpg
Brooklyn at dusk 1968 (William Gedney)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/...6487bb7f_b.jpg
Brooklyn scene 1969 (William Gedney)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/...7065552e_b.jpg
SE corner of 7th Ave & 43rd St December 1969
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/...07a97e68_o.jpg
100th St view of roof tops
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/...89bd5b13_o.jpg
1966 view from Beekman Hospital
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/...20d29b8a_o.jpg
1965 Chinatown (Ed Ford)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/...2cbedc60_o.jpg
42nd St looking west (possibly a Cushman shot)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/...758eac19_o.jpg
1964 World's Fair
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/...e7487e8f_o.jpg
World's Fair from expressway (Walter Reed)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/...c970ca73_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/...038d94f6_o.jpg
1967 Broad Street Lower Manhattan
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/...63b36b8a_o.jpg
1967 Fifth Ave Hotdog stand (Richard Friedman)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/...63a70d01_o.jpg
Great Human Be-In 1967
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/...081bec73_o.jpg
1968 Fillmore East
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/...42f746c6_o.jpg
Mott St/Chinatown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/...c390f4aa_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/...61411320_o.jpg
1960 Fifth Ave looking south from 42nd St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/...9cd57c09_o.jpg
Duffy Square 1967 (Al Lowe)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/2...4cc0a87f_b.jpg
Mets vs. Milwaukee Braves 1964 (opening year at Shea)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1218/...3557c6c5_o.jpg
FYI, this is all that's left...
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6430/img47692hl4.jpg
60's police car in the 00's. Sweet.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2333/...174bc855_b.jpg
WOW Radiohead...Thank YOU for bringing back the memories!
That worlds fair was my first visit to the states...
These Monsters are some of my fondest-If I remember correctly,
the mouth on the T-Rex slowly opened and closed-
and back then, that was a sight to behold!!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/...ab56da44_o.jpg
I wasn't born yet, but I would loved to have visited the fair and the dinoaurs. Glad it brought back good memories for you SCU
Here are some 1967 shots from gbaku/Flickr
NYC during a rainstorm
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1354/...ae6cb6af_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/...06b9d577_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/...ec8e62d9_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1128/...081a227f_b.jpg
The Summer of Love, Village style
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1222/...3de30baa_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1198/...3abfacc4_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1004/...bc8b7476_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/...9633d9e9_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/...194e6878_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/...a8884010_b.jpg
1967 The big boxes were still a minority
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1002/...4a80a067_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1018/...4478602e_b.jpg
Note the big intruder towards the right
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1206/...f0fe2445_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1174/...f8424ccc_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1338/...9312f4e5_b.jpg
From atop the Pan-Am
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/...83e0081d_b.jpg
Helicopter view
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1147/...712b64fe_b.jpg
NY Airways helicopter (for the JFK to Pan Am roof route)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1027/...b40a1c93_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/...9cd57c09_o.jpg
This view is so much better without HSBC.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/...20d29b8a_o.jpg
So this is what Southbridge Towers replaced. I should blow this up and bring it to the next CB1 meeting.
Great photostream of New York's skyline throughout the years.
eralsoto
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/...c9b1424e_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/...b1ab9a95_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...cbb4d06b_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/...31a2ff4e_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/...2cf91447_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/...57591f80_b.jpg
I think the Midtown skyline is more attractive now than it's been in the past...of course taking a closer look at the individual buildings is another story.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3535/...fe6e8a14_b.jpg
The towers of the 60's and 70's took the softness out of the skyline but I find them a a necessary evil.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3455/...865f4ddd_b.jpg
Brick & Limestone rule.
All Glass = Dastardly Interloper.
This is a great thread!!! Excellent photos.
Thanks for sharing them.