50 Amazing Color Photographs Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1970s
The New York City of the 1970s looked very different from the gentrified metropolis we know today. The Bowery, now lined with luxury apartments, housed much of the…
Let’s Examine This Vintage 1956 New York City Street Scene Photo
Gorgeous, isn’t it? Of course there are vintage cars and clothes aplenty, but let’s focus on some of the other details instead. Here’s what I can pick out from…
Cars of New York City: Snapshots from the 1970s and early 1980s
The 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 blue, heavily customized 1973 Cadillac Eldorado parked in Harlem, New York in March 1975 – the one you can see in the above photo – kicks of…
Mid-Century NYC: 1945-1980
19610800S-a36 Empire State Buliding New York Aug 1961 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr 19610800S-b2 Plaza Hotel, 5th Ave., Central Park New York Aug 1961 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr 19600800S-32 Manhatten…
Hipsterless Brooklyn: Vintage Photos From a Vanished World
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk. View of the Manhattan Bridge, connecting Brooklyn with that island across the…
CHARLES CUSHMAN’S 1940S NYC COLOR VIEWS
Eons ago, in Forgotten NY terms, that is (OK, maybe 5 years ago) I was sent a cache of color photos of vanished NY scenes. In France, so we…
30 Photos Of New York City In 1978
Manel Armengol was in New York in 1977 and 1978. A year earlier he’d been in Barcelona, where he’d witnessed the hated ‘Grises’ attacking people protesting for ‘Libertat, Amnesty, Estatut d’Autonomia’…
32 Impressive Photos Show How New York Has Changed Since the 1970s ~ Vintage Everyday
These startling 1970s New York photos reveal a city undergoing an unparalleled transformation fueled by economic collapse and rampant crime.Reeling from a decade of social turmoil, New York…
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when…
Kodachrome Slides of New York from 1940-1960s
New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early…
New York City in 1990 Through a French Photographer’s Lens
At the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. It brought yet another all-time record high in violent crime. By the mid…