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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 Circa 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 City, Snap Shatow, 42nd Street, showing entrance to G[ran]d Central Station, ca. 1905
Vintage Photograph Shows 42nd Street and Entrance to Grand Central Terminal Circa 1905
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This great vintage photograph shows the view looking west down 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, captured sometime between 1903 and 1910. On the right you can see an entrance and facade of…

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…

These Photos Reveal Exactly What Lies Beneath Grand Central Station
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As New Yorkers, we all have an inherent love for Grand Central Station: its age-old beauty, its spectacular architecture, and the way it seems to bring in the most interesting humans of the…

The original Waldorf Astoria in 1899
Vintage Photograph of the Original Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Torn Down for the Empire State Building
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This vintage photo from 1899 shows the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. It lasted for a few decades until sold off to be demolished, later becoming the site for…

Midtown Manhattan from above, 1925
Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Midtown Manhattan From Above in 1925
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This incredible vintage photograph from 1925 shows an aerial view of Grand Army Plaza, Central Park, 5th Avenue, and Midtown Manhattan on a sunny day over 93 years ago. The photographer was…

People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
Vintage Photographs Showing Anxious New Yorkers Waiting for News on D-Day, June 6th, 1944
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The On the morning of June 6th, 1944, D-Day, as New Yorkers started their day, thousands of troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and had already been fighting for hours. Here is a…

Broadway at Times Square, 1949
Vintage Photograph Shows a Busy Times Square in 1949
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Captured on the north-west corner of 46th and Broadway looking south, this great vintage photograph shows a classy Times Square back in 1949. Here is a Google StreetView of how this same…

Vintage Photograph Shows Fifth Avenue in Midtown Fully Colorized Circa 1910
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This great vintage photograph shows the view down Fifth Avenue from the east sidewalk between 35th and 36th streets in Midtown around 1910. Fully colorized by Imbued With Hues, the artist…

March 28, 1967: Firemen at the scene a fire on a track at Grand Central Terminal, where a fire on a train of the New Haven line sent smoke billowing through the station and into the Pan Am building and prompting evacuations. “The smoke was pouring out, and people kept demanding to know when their rains were leaving,” one witness reported to The Times.
Vintage Photograph Shows FDNY on Scene of Fire at Grand Central Terminal in 1967
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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…