New York in Black and White

[mariab]

How the heck did you get up there? It doesn't look like a pedestrian walkway.

[vanshnookenraggen]

I interned at the Port Authority a few summers ago and got to take a tour of the bridge. It. Was. Awesome.

[Merry]

Absolutely stunning.

The site has been overwhelmed and is still down .


Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives



The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more. I spent hours lost in these amazing photos, and gathered this group together to give you just a glimpse of what's been made available from this remarkable collection. [53 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...chives/100286/




An experimental exposure made on the Queensboro Bridge, on February 9, 1910. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


Queensboro Bridge under construction, on August 8, 1907. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


The Queensboro Bridge, leading to Manhattan, seen on May 1, 1912. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


28th Street Looking east from Second Avenue, on April 4, 1931. Google map streetview today here. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


42nd Street, looking west from 2nd Avenue. Chrysler Building at top right, "News Tavern" "Goblet Bar" at lower right, ca. 1935-1941. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


A view of the city from the Brooklyn Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, on April 24, 1933. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


part of the superstructure of the under-construction Manhattan Bridge rises above Washington Street in New York, on June 5, 1908.
(AP Photo/Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


A man reads a newspaper on New York's 6th Ave. and 40th St, with the headline: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris.", on May 18, 1940.
(AP Photo/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


Times Square theaters by day, in New York City. The Times Building, Loew's Theatre, Hotel Astor, Gaiety Theatre and other landmarks are featured in this January, 1938 photo.
(Bofinger, E.M./Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

[LLCNYC]

Joined this board just because this thread is awesome. Love the pics.

[mariab]

Yes they are, welcome to WNY. I can't get over the 3rd pic down post 228. Queens looks like a quite rural hamlet with this behemoth looming.

[LLCNYC]

Yes they are, welcome to WNY. I can't get over the 3rd pic down post 228. Queens looks like a quite rural hamlet with this behemoth looming.

Thanks Maria!

Yes! It's amazing to see so few homes.

I hope they fix the archive soon. It's still down.

[mariab]

I just tried it again. I expected for the first couple/few days to be spotty but dayum! They really need to expand their servers.

[Merry]

Oh. My. God.

West Street (Eleventh Avenue), 1912

much, much bigger



http://www.shorpy.com/node/12859?utm...+Photo+Blog%29

[lofter1]

Fantastic!

[mariab]

Neat little slideshow with all the classics under construction, including an amazing shot of the ESB mast looking up.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...lery-1.1092286

[Merry]

^ Nice, thanks mariab .


Oh. My. God. (2)

http://www.shorpy.com/node/13075?size=_original#caption

[Merry]

^ I could spend hours looking at that photo <sigh>. Just magnificent. Way too much is gone.

Need to find out what that amazing building on the far right with that extraordinary top is. And the one to its left with the arched windows near the top.

[mariab]

Wow, well according to the caption it could be any one of these buildings:

the City Hall Post Office, the Singer, Park Row, Home Life Insurance and City Investing buildings ... Note the observer taking in the scene from the cupola atop the domed New York World building. Detroit Publishing Co.

[Merry]

I know what all of the buildings in the caption are, and those two buildings are not any of them .

[Merry]

The building on the far right is the Broadway-Chambers Building, designed by Cass Gilbert, thankfully still there and landmarked in 1992. Sadly, the cheneau at the top was removed in 1925.

The building to its left is the Shoe and Leather Bank building, designed by Cady, Berg & See, sadly demolished.



http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co...dg-no-277.html



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