B&W New York City photos

[RobMoney$]

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West St. 1885

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Herald Sq. 1895

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Lower Broadway 1899

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Police Parade 1899 - Bowler Hats & no women kinda party.

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Hester St. Lower East Side 1901

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Flatiron 1903

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Broad St. 1904. Stock Exchange and Federal Hall.

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Easter Sunday, 1906. Fifth Avenue. No cars.

[RobMoney$]

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Herald Square, 1909. Skyscraper beyond is NY Times Building in Times Sq. Cars have replaced horses.



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L.E.S. 1908

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Union Sq. 1910

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Downtown skyline with Singer Building., 1910. World’s tallest.

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Downtown Skyline with Woolworth Building, 1913. World’s tallest.

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Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, modified phalanx.
Soldiers on sides assigned to upstairs windows.
Wilson feared antiwar riots.

[kaiser soze]

wow!

Those are really nice, I never knew you had talent (y)

[RobMoney$]

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Times Square from New York Times Building., 1922.

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HMS Leviathan and Singer Building., 1923.

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Fifth Avenue 1924

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Coney Island 1928

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Money makin' Manhatten 1928 (before it had very much money)

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Chrysler Gargoyle 1929

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Ironworkers Building the Empire State Bldg, 1930.

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Empire State Bldg. 1930

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Liberty 1930

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1931

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Midtown, 1931. The tracks lead to Penn Station.

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1931. New buildings gleam. River traffic, piers, ocean liner in slip.

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Midtown Skyline 1931

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Brooklyn in the front 1931.

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Get your drink on for 5 cents. 1932

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Columbus Circle, 1933.
No Time-Warner, no Trump International, no Venetian Palazzetto.

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Just 24$ in 1626?

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Where's Kong? 1934

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Chambers at Oak. Horse drawn carriage.

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The Bowery

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Cities Service Tower. Horse-drawn wagons lingered into the mid-sixties.

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Brooklyn Bridge & Skyline 1935

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Times Square, 1935. Betty Boop on the marquee.
The Astor came down mid-sixties, along with Penn Station and the Singer Building.

[Helvete]

And that's why New York is the mutherfuckinest. Shit looks more impressive 80 years ago than many cities do today. Can't wait to go there.

[RobMoney$]

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The El featured potbellied stoves.

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Dapper at the Docks

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Billie’s Bar, First Ave. at 56th.

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Greyhound and Penn Station

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Herald Sq.
Chain-drive trucks also survived into the sixties.

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Manhatten Bridge

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Deliverin' the Milk in Greenwich Village

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Newspaper (Park) Row. Center building once was the tallest.

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39th & Park Ave.

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Pike and Henry, Lower East Side, with Manhattan Bridge and a horse.

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Union Sq.

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Hester St.

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Riverside Drive Viaduct

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Henry Hudson Parkway at 72nd St. 1937

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The old Met. Garment District 1937.

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40th between 6th and 7th.

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Wall St.

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Columbus Circle. Building with Coke sign is now Trump International Hotel, Some of you Beastie heads may recognize it today:
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Artists and Poets, Washington Sq., 1939

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42nd St.

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Bryant Park

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NYC's coolest walk

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Girlies

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Elevated

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Flatiron with Fifth Ave. Bus

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Harlem

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Site of the future South St. Seaport.

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Horror vacui, Hebrew style. Challah!

[RobMoney$]

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Broome St. and Baruch Pl., Lower East Side. Not a sidewalk café.

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Lower East Side: street as living room.

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Coney Island 1945

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Hole where plane (B-25) hit Empire State Building, 1945.

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James Dean in Times Sq. 1955

[RobMoney$]

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Original Penn Station main waiting room

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Steel & Glass. Old Penn Station

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Singer Building.

[Randetica]

thanks for pushing this totally underrated city

[RobMoney$]

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Singer Bldg. Vacant & Awaiting Demolition.

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Queen Elizabeth

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Brooklyn Bridge 1880

[Kid Presentable]

Robert, these are gold. I love a visual history. I know this will sound mental, but I'm always amazed at how established society was in the late 1800s. Like, those people probably thought there was nothing they didn't know, no advancements left to make.

[RobMoney$]

I just spent a few hours posting them all.
I'm glad someone appreciates the effort. I thought it was worthwhile.

[kaiser soze]

I appreciate ablarc's efforts (y)

You could have posted this link and saved yourself the time

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010

[Dorothy Wood]

it's totally amazing to me how they built all that stuff with so little technology. and how those tall buildings didn't even have electricity at first.

it's really something.

[ericlee]

McSorley's bar.

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the wishbones represent the boys that didn't make it back from WWI to make their wish
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[b i o n i c]

<3

forever.

[kaiser soze]

Granted there is still modern architecture that blows the mind, these kind of buildings were tremendous hardships for all building them.

It is a shame the old Penn Station is gone, but many steel and glass buildings during those decades weren't left up for long. The Eiffel Tower is lucky to still be up after the 1900 World's Fair.

[ericlee]

<3

forever.

for real man, I'm probably staying here for a good long time. I just need to get a job that allows me to enjoy it.

Can't do squat or see anything working from 3-11.

[mickill]

it's totally amazing to me how they built all that stuff with so little technology. and how those tall buildings didn't even have electricity at first.
But the ancient Egyptians and Mayans didn't even have electricity at all. Take THAT, New York!

[NoFenders]

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I'd eat there everyday.

[NoFenders]

But the ancient Egyptians and Mayans didn't even have electricity at all. Take THAT, New York!

They didn't have electricity, but they had aliens. :)

[saz]

But the ancient Egyptians and Mayans didn't even have electricity at all. Take THAT, New York!

ditto rome and constantinople (http://www.byzantium1200.com/tiles.html).

[NoFenders]

And Atlantic City!!!

[RobMoney$]

I appreciate ablarc's efforts (y)

You could have posted this link and saved yourself the time

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010

WOW, great detective work. How'd you ever think of following the IP addy of the pics there Sherlock?
BTW, nobody cares. They're obviously not personally shot by me.
If I were trying to hide where I got them from I would have used a photobucket IP for all of them.

...and nobody would have checked a thread with just a link to it.


Douche-bag status confirmed yet again, kaiser.

[kaiser soze]

just spent a few hours posting them all.
I'm glad someone appreciates the effort. I thought it was worthwhile.

hahaha!

This is still laughable no matter what name you call me

why didn't you give credit where credit is due??

Oh you changed some of the subtext, bravo bravo! wipe your brow off fat boy you done good :rolleyes:

[RobMoney$]

Check the time stamps of the posts there Ralph Malph.
8:47pm to 11:52pm...that over 3 hours I spent just because I thought some of the people here might enjoy those shots.

It's like your trying to somehow expose something I did wrong, yet the more you try, the more dumb you look.
Quit before this gets any worse.

[kaiser soze]

how will it get worse?

I don't care about how much time you put into it, you just went to that site, took some other person's images and posted them here with slightly altered titles. You wasted your time, that is fucking hilarious by you posting this

"just spent a few hours posting them all.
I'm glad someone appreciates the effort."

Talk about self-congratulatory for something you just copied and pasted.

BIG FUCKING WOOPIE ROB!

I find it funny that you explode on my post when I was just stating the obvious, I didn't call you names and yes I posted the link to give the original person who put the original time and research into

you are the phony and by the way nice pics (y)

[ericlee]

come on guys. Who cares where he got them. At least he put forth the effort to make a decent historical thread in the sure shots.

I have no complaints how he got them, as well as other people who checked this thread.

Seriously, I like the both of yous and if I have to gather up both of you to share some beers and rid the hate, I'll do it.:)

[TurdBerglar]

everyone posts pics that they've seen somewhere else...


the fuck


genius thread? animated gif thread?

[RobMoney$]

How do you think that dude got all those pics?
He gathered them FROM THE INTERNET!@

[Bob]

this is pretty damn petty

i kind of took it for granted that rob didn't personally take these pictures of NYC from the late 19th/early 20th century and while maybe it would have been polite to say "i got these from such and such a site" i really don't much care

[TurdBerglar]

my avatar is not really me!!!!


hahahahahahahaha

[RobMoney$]

I spent probably 3 hours just gazing at all of those pics myself when I first found them.
I thought it'd make for a cool thread here.
Apparently by the time stamps, I spent an additional 3 hours posting them here. I'm happy you guys found them as enjoyable as I did.

I made no attempt to cover up any of the links because I wasn't trying to somehow pass them off as my own.


PS. Kaiser, quit pissing in this thread.

[kaiser soze]

my initial post was this

"I appreciate ablarc's efforts

You could have posted this link and saved yourself the time

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010"

and then I followed and even contributed to the conversation with this

"Granted there is still modern architecture that blows the mind, these kind of buildings were tremendous hardships for all building them.

It is a shame the old Penn Station is gone, but many steel and glass buildings during those decades weren't left up for long. The Eiffel Tower is lucky to still be up after the 1900 World's Fair."

I don't understand where robmoney can come off all bitchy like he had a fish stick up his ass or something.

What I do not appreciate is the fact that he tried to play it off like it was some monumental task....practically copying the other guy's text verbatim....plagiarism is plagiarism

If rob said "hey, this is where I found these images what a cool site", I'd think more highly of his efforts.

quite unoriginal, like I said nice pics and all....

:rolleyes:

There is a more historical context with imagery like this, it is common knowledge that the genius and animated gif threads are for fun. I see this kind of thread and those as completely different ways of presenting images in this forum.

[RobMoney$]

Seriously, I like the both of yous and if I have to gather up both of you to share some beers and rid the hate, I'll do it.:)

I'm in Rochester as we speak.
I think Kaiser knows how to get here.

[kaiser soze]

I'll follow the stench!

ok, bad joke...buffalo stinks just as bad, in fact I think there is a trail of stench floating over 90 connecting the two shitties.

[RobMoney$]

yeah, don't know this place well enough to know the local jokes.

[ericlee]

I'm in Rochester as we speak.
I think Kaiser knows how to get here.

Well, you'll have to drive. I don't think we're getting the vehicle.

What's going on in Rochester? Egging qdrop's house?

[funk63]

Awesome pictures.. I really hope to go to NYC someday.
But the ancient Egyptians and Mayans didn't even have electricity at all. Take THAT, New York!

I actually was watching some show and all these dudes were saying that the Egyptians DID have electricity. Theres this ancient heiroglyph on a wall in the Pharaohs' room and it looks like some kind of long bulb with a wire running into it. They were also saying that the tombs didnt show any evidence of smoke build up on the walls or anything so it is very possible they could have. INSANE.

[yeahwho]

I fucking hate everybody and I hope the 3 of you assholes get in a fight when you meet up in NYC for your stinking fucking brewskis.

Then I hope some ass takes a B&W pic of your fat lips and black eyes, copies and pastes it right here in this thread.

That is all. Blow me.

[ericlee]

I fucking hate everybody and I hope the 3 of you assholes get in a fight when you meet up in NYC for your stinking fucking brewskis.

Then I hope some ass takes a B&W pic of your fat lips and black eyes, copies and pastes it right here in this thread.

That is all. Blow me.

You'll get nothing but B&W photos of us bear hugging.

And yeah, I actually have fat lips. You wanna make sumptin of it? You'll appear in the photo op as well.

Bass turd.

[yeahwho]

You'll get nothing but B&W photos of us bear hugging.

And yeah, I actually have fat lips. You wanna make sumptin of it? You'll appear in the photo op as well.

Bass turd.

I meant it in a good way, you know, I'm sure everything will go fine until kaiser soze provokes a cop while rob is talking McCain economics.

[ericlee]

I meant it in a good way, you know, I'm sure everything will go fine until kaiser soze provokes a cop while rob is talking McCain economics.

Wasn't McCain speak last year? While the elections were still going on?

Regardless, I know for certain what you say is meant to be said in a good way. Rob is still driving.

[kaiser soze]

Then I hope some ass takes a B&W pic of your fat lips and black eyes, copies and pastes it right here in this thread.

That is all. Blow me.

You'll get a pretty B&W picture of a big ol' shit from my ass on robmoney's forehead, that is what you'll get

love it or leave it

ericlee, Engrish much?

;)

[RobMoney$]

OK, so it's settled then.
Kaiser's driving to Rochester and I'm driving us both to NYC to hook up with Eric where we will make a B&W version of 3 guys and 1 cup.
Except in our version eric & me will be drinking brews out of the cup and Kaiser will be crapping himself in the corner.

[kaiser soze]

you forget that you'll be sporting your shit horn unicorn look (y)

[Knuckles]

this is pretty damn petty

i kind of took it for granted that rob didn't personally take these pictures of NYC from the late 19th/early 20th century and while maybe it would have been polite to say "i got these from such and such a site" i really don't much care

Sorry Bob, you're wrong. This is just more proof that Rob is a time traveling photographer.


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[Helvete]

Hahaha!

[ericlee]

ericlee, Engrish much?

;)

Beerspeak.

[yeahwho]

Short NYC story from a Seattle guy who took a local girl there last year (because she had 5th row seats to Springsteen @ Giants Stadium), We just got in town after our flight and it was around seven when we arrived decided to go down to Times Square, anyway I was taken back at how homogenized and corporate the place had become, a lot of chain restaurants and stuff... then I spotted Sardi's and decided WTF, I know it's going to a C note + to eat but it's her 1st night ever here and I haven't been to NYC in 10 years, we headed in and got seated immediately in a nice corner seat next to a wrap around booth. We were both pumped up and totally excited about being there in the Big Apple, she was getting tipsy and I was being my charming self when i lookewd at the booth next to us and sitting there was George Costanza (actor Jason Alexander). She didn't believe me because a pillar blocked her view, finally George moved over to the other side of the booth to talk with some folks on the other side in his party and she started blinking her eye at him and laughing like a drunken high schooler, which made everybody in that area of Sardi's lol.

Then that night when we got back to the hotel I watched the 10:00 PM FOXnews to checkout the local scene and right after it came on Seinfeld and the episode was "The Summer of George" which Kramer accidentally won a Tony that he took down to Sardi's to show off.

Life imitating Art. I absolutely Love NYC, the greatest town on earth, every trip is better than the next, if you can't find it there it doesn't exist.

I'll try and get some of my pics on this thread later.

[cutter]

Hey I always dig old timey photos. It seems to give me a sense of place and time. It just goes to show how far we have come.

dig the post!

[paul jones]

those poor bastards must have been really bored cos' there was no innernette then.

thanks for posting the pics(y)

[mikizee]

this is pretty damn petty

i kind of took it for granted that rob didn't personally take these pictures of NYC from the late 19th/early 20th century and while maybe it would have been polite to say "i got these from such and such a site" i really don't much care

seconded

[Burnout18]

wow those pics were great, I liked 'em a lot.... I'm inspired and i think im going to take my camera into the city tomorrow and do a little picture takin myself.