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A nightmare for the city’s sanitation workers and mysophobes as The Times reported that a “survey of the areas flanking the New York Central Railroad elevated structure along Park Avenue, where Harlem merges with the Upper East Side, revealed side street conditions even more foul than those that can be seen daily by thousands of railroad travelers.” The commissioner of housing and buildings, fretting about a citywide problem of accumulating refuse, said it was “almost unbelievable what piles up overnight.””
Vintage Photograph of a Sanitation Worker's Nightmare in Harlem, 1948
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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…

LONDON BOYS: "Harlem Desire" (Good audio quality!)
'Harlem Desire', a 1987 Europop Dance Hit about the City by the London Boys
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From Wikipedia: "Harlem Desire" is a single by Europop duo London Boys. It was originally released in 1987 to limited success. As a result the single was released again in 1989 and featured…

Vintage Photograph of the City College of New York Circa 1908
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Harlem's City College of New York is the oldest college in the CUNY system, established in 1847. This vintage photograph from 1908 shows Shepard Hall, a neo-gothic masterpiece based on a…

102 y/o Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time
102-Year-Old Harlem Woman Sees Herself Dancing on Film for the First Time
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With the help of Mark Cantor from Jazz on Film, volunteers at Brooklyn's Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Nursing Home were able to track down video of 102-year-old resident Alice Barker…

Martin Luther King Bronze Statue (1970) by Stanley Sawyer, Harlem, New York City | Esplanade Garden Houses, West 147 Street, Manhattan NYC
The 1970 Martin Luther King Jr. Bronze Statue in Harlem
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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States so we would not be doing our part in honoring one of our Nation's great heroes without showing you a bit of MLK in New York City.…

View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970
1970 New York City Was a Rundown, Derelict Place
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Chilean-born photographer Camilo José Vergara was working on a graduate degree at Columbia University in the early 1970's. He spent his time in the City photographic as much as he could, and…