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Gorgeous Vintage Photos of NYC

These beautiful and educational late 19th and early 20th century photos of New York city were released recently by the NYC municipal archives, along with an astounding 800,000 others. These, however, represent the most beautiful, enriching and interesting photos of the entire number, showing New York at its best - old school.

 

Sunlight floods in through windows in the main room
of New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Taken ca. 1935-1941.New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!


Aerial view of New York City, looking north,
on December 16, 1951.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

28th Street Looking east from
Second Avenue, on April 4, 1931.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Meeker Avenue Bridge under construction,
looking south, showing Brooklyn, on June 29, 1939.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Shadows are cast beneath the Brooklyn Bridge,
seen from a stable roof, on May 6, 1918.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A worker on the Brooklyn Bridge,
on November 19, 1928.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Markus Mercury Wheel Club, Flushing Race Track,
bicyclists ready to race in June of 1894.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Original City Hall subway station,
IRT Lexington Avenue Line, in 1904. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Coney Island looking east from Steeplechase Pier
showing Sunday bathers, crowd on beach, on July 30, 1922. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A two-horse team street cleaner, with sprayer,
squeegee, and roller at rear.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

An experimental exposure made on the
Queensboro Bridge, on February 9, 1910.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Italian vegetable sidewalk stand, on Bleeker Street,
near Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, in August of 1937.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Lower Manhattan skyline at night, seen from either the
Staten Island Ferry or Governor's Island, in February of 1938. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History,
West 81st St, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Red Hook Swimming Pool, Clinton, Bay & Henry Streets,
Brooklyn. Bathers as far as the eye can see.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Queensboro Bridge under construction, on August 8, 1907.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

The Queensboro Bridge, showing reconstruction of tracks looking east,
on November 22, 1929.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A one-legged newspaper boy and other "newsies",
on Delancey Street, on December 26, 1906.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

New York Police Department evidence photo, homicide scene.
Joseph Kellner, 404 East 54th Street, murdered in hallway, on January 7, 1916.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Powell House at 195th Street and 58th
Avenue North, Queens, on May 20, 1941 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Times Square theaters by day, in New York City.
The Times Building, Loew's Theatre, Hotel Astor,
Gaiety Theatre and other landmarks are featured in this January, 1938 photo.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

An aerial view of the Statue of Liberty
in the New York Harbor, on January 27, 1965. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A view from the Williamsburg Bridge, looking west,
showing congested traffic in Manhattan, on January 29, 1923.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!


Painters suspended on cables of the
Brooklyn Bridge, on October 7, 1914 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!


A Hooverville in Brooklyn, ca. 1930-1932.
 The area is now Red Hook Park in Brooklyn. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

 

A Subway Road Comes up for air in Brooklyn
- in the background, a view of Manhattan from
subway elevated tracks, 8th Street,
Brooklyn, New York, on March 21, 1938.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Yankee Stadium, Yankees on the field during a game, ca. 1935-1947.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A man reads a newspaper on New York's
6th Ave. and 40th St, with the headline:
"Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris", on May 18, 1940.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Men cut ice from Kissena Lake in Queens, ca. 1860-1900.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos! 

New York Fire Department demonstration of a
steam pumper converted from horse-drawn to motor-driven,
at 12th Avenue and 56th Street.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos! 

Children and adults with herd of sheep in the
Sheep Meadow in Central Park, New York City, ca. 1900-1910.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Part of the superstructure of the under construction
Manhattan Bridge rises above Washington Street
in New York, on June 5, 1908.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Manhattan Bridge, under-construction,
seen from the roof of Robert Gair Building,
showing suspenders and saddles, on February 11, 1909.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Aboard a police boat on October 10, 1934,
New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia hacks away
at confiscated slot machines about to be destroyed
and dumped into New York harbor. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A view down an alley, as rows and rows of laundry hang from tenements ca. 1935-1941. Seen looking west from 70 Columbus Avenue or Amsterdam Avenue at 63rd Street.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A crowded street market under New York City Rail Road tracks,
looking south on Park Avenue from 123rd Street in June of 1932.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

 

A night view of Midtown Manhattan,
looking south from Madison Avenue
and the 50's, ca. 1935-1941.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Amid road construction, the Hudson Diner advertises
"Tables for Ladies" on November 20, 1929,

on Marginal Street, looking east from 125th Street.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Ninth Avenue El trains with passengers on 2 levels of tracks,
66th Street El station in background, in October of 1933.
Photo taken on Columbus Avenue,
northwest of Lincoln Square & 65th Street.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

The S.S. Normandie, steaming through upper bay
on its way to a river pier built for it, 
seen from a Staten Island ship. ca. 1935-1941

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

A view of the city from the Brooklyn Tower
of the Brooklyn Bridge, on April 24, 1933. 

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!  

A view of the city from the New York tower of
George Washington Bridge, 168th Street & Hudson River,
on December 22, 1936.

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Fire Boats fight a blaze at Grace Line Pier 57,
West 15th St, near the National Biscuit Co. building.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Members of the New York Fire Department attend to a fire victim.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

The "Well", US Signal Corps Army Base Terminal,
Port of Embarkation. Ration cases from crate cars
are hoisted to warehouse bins for storage, ca. 1945-1946.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Water from firefighters' hoses freezes

on the side of adjoining buildings.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Interior view of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)
subway powerhouse, 58th to 59th Street, ca. 1904.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

42nd Street, looking west from 2nd Avenue.
Chrysler Building at top right, "News Tavern" "Goblet Bar" at lower right,
ca. 1935-1941.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city, on December 3, 1915.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

Aftermath of a collision on an elevated rail track. 

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!

The Queensboro Bridge, leading to Manhattan, seen on May 1, 1912.

  New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!  

A motorman operates a trolley car near Williamsburg Bridge,
on September 25, 1924. Signs advertise almonds,
cold remedies, mustard, and stove polish. 

New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!  

Images courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives

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