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The New York Public Library as seen from the intersection of East 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. July 14, 1915
Vintage Photograph Shows The New York Public Library in 1915
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The New York Public Library was established in 1895 and quickly housed one of the largest collections in the world. It is currently the second largest collection in the United States, and…

New York Is Building A $16 BILLION New Tunnel Beneath The Hudson River
[VIDEO] New York Is Building A $16 Billion New Tunnel Beneath The Hudson River
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Every day, more than 200,000 people hurtle beneath the Hudson River, unaware they are traveling through a pair of crumbling tunnels built before the Titanic even set sail. These narrow,…

Midtown Manhattan, New York, 1952
Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Midtown Manhattan From Above in 1952
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This great vintage photograph from the Spring of 1952 shows Midtown Manhattan from above. Snapped from a helicopter over the East River, the view looks southwest, capturing both the U.N.…

Dec. 8, 1929: Thirty-foot-tall cartoon Katzenjammer Kids marched — or rather, floated — in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to “an unknown destination.” The Katzenjammer Kids was a popular comic strip by Rudolph Dirks (later joined by Harold H. Knerr), who also created the spin-off strips Hans and Fritz and, eventually, The Captain and the Kids.
Vintage Photograph of Creepy Katzenjammer Kids Floats in the 1929 Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade
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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…

Jewish gangsters in New York City
[WATCH] History of Jewish Gangsters in New York City
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Many people today may not know about the role one infamous Jewish mobster played in fighting fascism in the five boroughs.

Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden
Mini-Documentary Shows Shocking Footage of the 1939 Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden
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We've showed you photos of the horrible American Nazi Rally that took place in Madison Square Garden in 1939 before, but this new mini-documentary film from Marshall Curry of FieldofVision…