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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…

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 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,…

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 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…

5,200 Square Foot Mural From 1935 Restored at American Museum of Natural History
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The grand entrance of the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda at the American Museum of Natural History is home to a massive 5,200 square foot installation of murals, originally completed in 1935 by…

Dan Savage’s Amateur Porn Festival, HUMP!, is Coming to Brooklyn
Secrets of St. Patrick's Cathedral; Smorgasburg on Seamless; Amateur Porn Festival Coming Back to Brooklyn
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There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. Street Art NYC: An Interview with…

Vintage Vacation Photographs Show What the City Looked Like in 1980
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Dutch vacationer Ed Sijmons first visited New York City with his wife back in 1980 and snapped all of these amazing vintage photos. Over their two-week trip, Sijmons took hundreds of…

July 7, 1981: Ironworkers on the Brooklyn Bridge attended to cables that had snapped, closing down the pedestrian walkway from June 28 — when the cables broke — until early August. “Akira Aimi, the 32-year-old Japanese freelance photographer who was critically injured when he was hit by one of the snapped cables, died yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital,” reported The Times. Have no fear, however, said a representative of the Transportation Department. “When the retainers are installed, it will be equally safe for pedestrians and bicycles. I would walk across it then with my wife and family anytime,” he said.
Vintage Photograph of Ironworkers Fixing a Snapped Cable Up High on the Brooklyn Bridge
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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…

Pennsylvania Station seen at night seen from The New Yorker Hotel January 1941
Amazing Vintage Photograph of the Original Penn Station at Night Circa 1941
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The electric glamor of New York by night shines out in this shot looking southeast from the roof of the Hotel New Yorker at 34th Street and 8th Avenue. Directly below is Pennsylvania…