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Times Square at night, ca. 1923. The view is from 45th and Broadway, looking north. On the left is the old Astor Theater, which was at 1537 Broadway. It was demolished in 1982 to make way for the barren and soulless Marriott Marquis Hotel. Click/tap to enlarge.
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Times Square, New York City. Camel Cigarettes early 1960s.
1925 Central Park West and 80th Street, New York City. From New York City-Vintage History.
The Garment Center at noon, 7th Avenue & 28th St., June 1936.
Photo: Dorothea Lange via the NYC Municipal Archives
1930 West 40th Street. A crowd is gathered outside the headquarters of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper, reading the news which is posted on the window. From New York City History and Memories, FB.
The New York Herald, not yet merged with the Tribune, 1930.
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Midtown, 1949.
Photo: Ruth Orkin via orkinphoto.com
New York has two Grand Army Plazas—the one at Fifth Ave. and 59th St. in Manhattan, and one at the entrance to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. On May 30, 1936, more than 50,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, marched to the cheers of a half million others to mark Decoration Day (as Memorial Day was then called) as well as Brooklyn’s 300th anniversary.
The Times said that that day “was one of the most spectacular—from the point of view of parades—in the 300 years of the borough’s history, since that day long ago when two men made the perilous trip across the East River from the Dutch village on Manhattan Island and established a little settlement on Gowanus Bay which they then spelled Bruijkleen.”
Photo: NY Times via Instagram
Ilonka Karasz drew a traffic jam at Columbus Circle for the cover of the May 30, 1925 issue of The New Yorker.
Source: Conde Nast Store
Radio City Music Hall, usually lit up so brilliantly, had its exterior lights almost extinguished on May 20, 1942, as part of a city-wide dimout. Lights were only permitted on lower floors to make it difficult for enemy aircraft to see. There is practically no traffic.
Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP via Newsday
Henry Ford drives a horse-drawn tram, in Brooklyn, May 17, 1928. The tram was presented to Ford for his museum.
Photo: Associated Press via Stavanger Aftenblad
Hide and seek in Brooklyn, ca. 1939.
Photo: Helen Levitt via Artsy
The $60 million French liner "Normandie," tied up at a Hudson River pier since August of 1939, towers over a policeman and three other men, May 15, 1941. The U.S. Coast Guard seized the ship and converted it for military use.
Photo: Associated Press