1936-1951' captures daily life of adults and children in New York City Children are seen playing, sailors walking through Times Square and lightning flying across the Empire State Building ...
By the late 1940s, New York had become the world's ... Al Smith and Emma Lazarus — the city of blocks, neighborhoods and crowded streets that, however shabby and rundown in appearance, were ...
The New York Transit Museum archives have this vintage video produced by the NY Transportation Board in 1949 about the New York City subway system. At the time, the fare was $0.10 - and the ...