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Vintage Photograph Shows New York Skyline From Atop the Manhattan Bridge Circa 1915
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This incredible photograph of Manhattan's Civic Center and Two Bridges neighborhoods was snapped around 1915 from atop the pedestrian path of the Manhattan Bridge. Here is a Google Street…

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…

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…

Paul Himmel, 1950
Vintage Photograph of a Man Gazing Off of Brooklyn Bridge Circa 1950
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This iconic New York photograph, captured by the late photographer Paul Himmel, features a pensive man looking out off the Brooklyn Bridge towards lower Manhattan. This photo is just one of…