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Two oldtimers playing chess on a Central Park bench in New York City, May 1946.
This Vintage Photograph Shows Two Old Men Playing Chess in Central Park May 1946
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Greater New York ... Metropolis of Mankind, National Geographic, 1933
Check Out This Incredible Vintage Aerial Photograph of New York City in 1933
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Flashback: The Staten Island Zoo
[VIDEO] Flashback, The Staten Island Zoo
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Around The Flatiron Building, 1906
This Vintage Photograph Shows Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park in 1906
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Rockefeller Center under construction, New York City, 1932 | Rockefeller Center rises in mid-Manhattan. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc., N.Y., 1932. From the New York World-Telegram Collection at the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Library of Congress</a>. <a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=world-telegram&amp;m=tags&amp;w=76204898@N00&amp;s=int">More pictures from the World-Telegram Collection</a> <b>[PD]</b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36071" rel="nofollow">This picture</a> is assumed to be in the public domain.
This Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Rockefeller Center Under Construction in 1932
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Flashback Staten Island: Bridges of Richmond County
[VIDEO] This Slideshow Shows Vintage Photographs of All Four Bridges on Staten Island
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Inwood, 1933, "A Reporter at Large"
[WATCH] Reading of a 1933 Vintage Newspaper Article on Inwood: "A Reporter at Large"
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Around Macy’s Herald Square – The Greatest Store In The World, 1905
This Vintage Photograph Shows Macy's Department Store and Surrounding Herald Square in 1905
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Times Square, 1917
This Vintage Photograph Shows a Crowded Times Square in 1917
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“A street-cleaning cart in New York City, where there were said to be 450 of them in 1915. Earlier that year, The Times reported on other improvements to the city’s streets, at a meeting held at Columbia University by the three borough presidents and John T. Fetherston, street-cleaning commissioner. The four men “discussed the planning, construction and maintenance of public highways and public works and street cleaning before an audience including many of the prettiest young women students in the university,” The Times reported. The audience was attentive, “but the women particularly became enthusiastic when President Marks told them of his fight for free public markets,” the report continued. Alas, that topic was not on the agenda. Boasting about the borough with the most asphalt (Brooklyn), however, was.”
This Vintage Photograph of a Horse Drawn New York Street Cleaning Cart Circa 1915
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