Old nyc

Vintage Times Square Before the pedestrian plaza and the media-centered tourist extravaganza that is Times Sq. today, there was a very different kind of...

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

New York City, c. early 1930s

When i see old pics of NY i am always amazed by it.That's why i made this thread. And if you can find some old pics of NY ,post them here as well...

Please also see: ARCHITECTURE AND MANHATTAN BUILDINGS - PART 1 - The Reservoir / Central Park Somewhere in the "photo district" (near Chelsea) View from Avenue A and 12th street roof ConEd Plant / East 14th street View of avenue B from Tompkins Park. Charlie Parker was actually living in this corner building. My friend Stella (owner of Cafe della Pace on 7ht st.) was renting his old apartment (with a great terrace) in the mid-90's. 22nd st / 7th ave. East Houston street East 12th street…

The bright lights and full skirts of mid-20th century New York are effortlessly captured in Sabine Weiss’s poignant pictures of the city that never sleeps

1920's - NYC, Lower East Side

Retro New York on Instagram: “Times Square, 1950s. 📸: unknown”

Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seven...

We are on our way back home to England, stopping in New York and travelling home by ship to Southampton.

The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s. RIP old Penn Station.