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Frank Staropoli of the New York City Police Aviation Unit scoured SoHo rooftops in the growing search for Etan Patz, the boy who disappeared on his way to a bus stop on May 25, 1979. Nearly 36 years to the day of the disappearance, a judge declared a mistrial in the case after jurors — who had deliberated for three weeks — could not reach a verdict.
New York Times' Lively Morgue Posts a Vintage Aerial Photograph Over Lower Manhattan
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Aerial View, 1982, Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
[PHOTOS] A Giant Wheat Field Was Planted Over What is Now Battery Park City in 1982
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Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Lower Manhattan was an interesting public art project in 1982 by author and artist Agnes Denes in which a large wheat field was planted…

The Making of Battery Park City
Check Out This Video Slideshow Showing The Creation of Battery Park City
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The Skyscraper Museum has an interesting new exhibit titled Millennium: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s which, amongst other things, includes this silent slideshow documenting the creation of…

Battery Park City, 1977
Vintage Photograph Shows Undeveloped Battery Park City "Beach" in 1977
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For those of you that didn't already know, the entire neighborhood of Battery Park City in lower Manhattan was created only in the 1970s using dirt excavated for the construction of the…