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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.”
Vintage Photograph of a Horse Drawn New York Street Cleaning Cart Circa 1915
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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…

Eugene de Salignac's Iconic Brooklyn Bridge Painters Photograph From 1914
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Eugene de Salignac was the official photographer of the NYC Department of Bridges from 1906 to 1934. During that time, Salignac captured over 20,000 photos as large, glass-plate negatives…

A Walk Through New York City in 1968
Video: Take a Walk Through New York City in 1968
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This great 28 minute short film features tons of still photographs from 1968 stitched together as a cohesive walk from the Brooklyn Bridge, up Broadway, then ending at the Central Park lake,…

Wonders of New York
Detailed Illustrated Map from the 1950s Shows Over 300 "Wonders of New York"
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While this map is named "Wonders of New York", it is really an illustrated map of over 300 interesting attractions in Manhattan from the 1950s. The map was designed and illustrated by…

A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance.
Large Forgotten Mosaic Mural From the 1950s Uncovered in a Midtown Manhattan Lobby
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A colorful 40-by-18½-foot mural by the late mosaic artist Max Spivak was uncovered recently behind some paneling in a Midtown office tower's lobby. […] renovation crews stripped away a false…

Vintage Photographs of the Famous Hippodrome Theater Circa 1905
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The Hippodrome Theater operated as a state-of-the-art theater in the Theater District from 1905 up until 1939. It was called the world's largest theatre by its builders and had a seating…

A nightmare for the city’s sanitation workers and mysophobes as The Times reported that a “survey of the areas flanking the New York Central Railroad elevated structure along Park Avenue, where Harlem merges with the Upper East Side, revealed side street conditions even more foul than those that can be seen daily by thousands of railroad travelers.” The commissioner of housing and buildings, fretting about a citywide problem of accumulating refuse, said it was “almost unbelievable what piles up overnight.””
Vintage Photograph of a Sanitation Worker's Nightmare in Harlem, 1948
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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…

Some of a total of 16 cars left at a pier. Dec. 12, 1984.
Not Too Long Ago, Thousands of Abandoned Cars Littered New York City With Steel
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A recent article on the New York Times' Lens blog has a great collection of vintage photographs from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s when abandoned cars littered the sides of nearly every street in…

Check Out This Awesome Video of the NYC Breakers Break Dancing on Graffiti Rock in 1984
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Graffiti Rock was an early 80's idea to make a hip-hop version of the popular music and dance programs Soul Train and American Bandstand. It only had one episode, a pilot, that aired on WPIX…

Check Out Times Square, The Brooklyn Bridge, and New York City's Sandy Beaches in the 1950s
Vintage Photographs of Times Square, The Brooklyn Bridge, and City Beaches Circa 1950
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New York City has also been a glamorous destination—and we've got proof. Whether visiting the noticeably tech-less Times Square, the somewhat newer Brooklyn Bridge, or the better-dressed…