Vintage Photograph Shows Snow Shovelers Outside Flatiron Building Circa 1905

Cleaning the streets after a snow storm, New York. Broadway and 23rd St, 1905

No matter how much the City has changed over the centuries, New Yorkers have always had to deal with snow the same way: by shoveling. This great vintage photograph shows a bunch of workers shoveling snow on Broadway outside of the newly built Flatiron Building, then known as the Fuller Building. Here is a Google StreetView of the same view today:

via Library of Congress

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