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Vintage Photograph Looking Up Park Avenue Towards Grand Central Circa 1964
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May 25, 1950: Cop grins broadly as driver of one of the first cars to enter the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel hands him his ticket.
Vintage Photographs Show What Brooklyn Really Looked Like in the 1950s
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Vintage NYC Subway Token Cufflinks
Check Out These Sweet Cufflinks Made Using Vintage NYC Subway Tokens
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Before the MetroCard, the New York City subway system used coin tokens for access. You would buy tokens at station booths, convenience stores and other convenient places. The Small Y tokens…

Vintage Photograph of NYU's University Heights Campus in The Bronx Circa 1904
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In 1894, New York University purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on their established campus in Lower Manhattan. The University Heights NYU campus…

Three men sit on a bench in Battery Park during lunch hour.
Vintage Color Photographs Show What New York City Looked Like in the 1940s
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Charles W. Cushman was an amateur photographer who shot thousands of photographs all around the world from 1938 to 1969. When Cushman passed, he bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome…

A New Yorker's Idea of the United States of America Circa 1936
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This humorous pictorial map of the United States takes the perspective of a New Yorker, with New York shown in oversized proportion to the entire country. A parody of the self-centered - and…

An $8.5 Million Dollhouse Exists and is on Display in Columbus Circle
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The Astolat Dollhouse Castle is an $8.5 million dollhouse filled with incredible miniature art and valuables. When you break it all down, the dollhouse is the most expensive piece of real…

July 31, 1974: When the Oyster Bar and Restaurant at Grand Central Terminal closed with little warning, diners and employees alike were dismayed. “When I want oysters on the half-shell and nothing more, where do I go?” asked one customer. However, it was expected to reopen soon (and did, with new management), and was reviewed favorably in The Times later that year (though the mussels, at $2.25, were deemed overpriced).“
Vintage Photograph of Grand Central Terminal's Oyster Bar Circa 1975
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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…

Vintage Photograph of Goat Carriages in Central Park Circa 1904
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Horse carriages aren't the only type of carriages that have traversed through Central Park over the years. Here is a vintage photograph from 1903 showing a bunch of kids driving a couple of…

In the late 1970s, Grand Central Terminal’s owners faced bankruptcy and, figuring they had a solution, nearly slapped a 55-story office tower on top of the revered architectural marvel. The terminal was saved by the Supreme Court’s decision in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, “in which the Supreme Court upheld for the first time the principle on which landmark preservation laws are based,” wrote Paul Goldberger in The Times in 1990. William Brennan figures as the hero in Mr. Goldberger’s tale, having written the majority opinion that prevented the terminal’s owners, Penn Central, from developing on the landmark and thereby securing its status as a structure of public good. Justice Brennan believed, like many others, that historic buildings and other structures “enhance the quality of life for all.”
Vintage Photograph of Grand Central Terminal's Main Concourse Circa 1988
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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…