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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…

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…

Chop Suey and HMV Records, 107 East 14th Street, New York City, 1921 - Colorized
Vintage Colorized Photograph Shows East 14th Street Storefronts in 1921
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This vintage photograph from 1921 shows a street scene from East 14th street near Irving Place, looking towards the north side of the street. There is a crowd formed outside of the music…

The New York City Evolution Animation
Check Out This Data Visualization Showing Growth of NYC's Five Boroughs from 1609 to Present Day
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In a detailed study titled Here Grows New York, Columbia University student Myles Zhang used publicly-accessible data from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress to create…

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…

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…

Jan. 4, 1962: Throngs of skaters took to the Wollman Memorial Rink in Central Park, and those who braved the crowds that day might have been satisfied to see their picture above an article citing a report that estimated that 77 billion persons had walked the earth since the beginning of humankind. “World population is gaining now at the rate of 50,000,000 a year,” reported The Times, which noted that the report’s authors called the growth “enormous” and “phenomenal.”
Vintage Photograph of Ice Skaters at Central Park's Wollman Rink in 1962
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The Lively Morgue is a 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 historical…

Harlem nights, An annotated map of the hippest, hottest nightspots in uptown jazz-age New York
Vintage Night Club Map of Harlem Shows the Hottest Nightspots in Jazz-Age New York City, 1933
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This 1933 map illustrated by cartoonist Simms Campbell shows the vibrant nightlife of a Jazz-age Harlem. IF NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps, then this map shows you where it used to…