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October 3, 1979: An ebullient pontiff, thrown a ticker-tape parade by overjoyed New Yorkers, was shielded from the rain by an umbrella held by Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York. At a gathering at Madison Square Garden, Pope John Paul II was cheered by thousands of teenagers. “If he’d put that guitar around his neck,” said one headmaster of a Catholic high school, “the kids would have blown the roof right off the Garden.”
Vintage Photograph of Pope John Paul II's 1979 Ticker-Tape Parade Through NYC
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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…

Check Out This Vintage Bird's Eye View Map of Midtown Manhattan Circa 1963
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This hand illustrated birds eye view map of Midtown Manhattan was created by cartographer Hermann Bollmann for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens. One of the greatest cartographic…

⁴ᴷ Motorman's Point of View - 1930s R1 from Coney Island to 53rd St-7th Ave
Watch This First Person View of a Subway's Trip From Coney Island to Manhattan
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Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. Hammers recently got a chance to film almost the entire…

Check Out this Vintage Photograph of a Crowd Watching the Live Finale of Seinfeld in Times Square in 1998
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With landmarks, catchphrases and neuroses aplenty, Seinfeld has resonated with New Yorkers far more than the countless other shows based in New York City. In this photograph from 1998, check…

Vintage Photograph of the New York Times Tower Building Under Construction in 1904
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One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square built, was once the home of The New York Times. It was completed in 1904 and the Times stayed there for…

⁴ᴷ Motorman's Point of View - 1930s R1 from 42nd St/6 Av to Kings Highway
WATCH: First Person View of the F Train From Midtown to Kings Highway
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Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. Hammers recently got a chance to film a long length of the F…

People demonstrating against the Westway highway project, New York City, July 6, 1977
1970s NYC Environmentalists Put a Screeching Halt to 6-Lane West Side Highway
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The clash between big business elites and green-seeking environmentalists is not a 21st century development. Back in 1974, plans to turn Manhattan’s West Side into Westway, a waterfront…

March 24, 1993: Prince at Radio City Music Hall. “He has been making albums since 1978, most of them as a one-man band, and while rhythms and techniques have evolved through the years, Prince’s ambition to be all seducers to all listeners has barely wavered,” reviewed The Times. “The attempts he made at social relevance in the mid-1980’s have vanished; now, it’s back to the bedroom.”
Vintage Photograph of Prince Performing at Radio City Music Hall in 1993
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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…

July 4, 1967: Psychedelic times at the Electric Circus, on St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan, where one might observe “a model in a purple and silver polka dot jump suit” sailing into “the arms of a man dressed as a gorilla,” as one reporter did in The Times later that year. “Then, as the walls crawled with protoplasmic blobs of colored light throbbing with the beat, the model and the gorilla began to frug.” The frug (pronounced froog) being one of many dance crazes sweeping the nation.
Vintage Photograph Shows Famous Music Club Electric Circus on St. Marks Place in 1967
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⁴ᴷ Vintage BMT Standards and D Types passing through 190th Street
Watch This Vintage Train From Early 1910s Chug Through the 190th Street Subway Station
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Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent video he captures a vintage train from the…