Daily Life in New York in the 1940s Told Through 25 B&W Images


New York in the 1940s A Look Back on NYC Through 45 Fantastic Found

History of New York City - 1935 to 1940. The Great Depression has come and gone, and the city is slowly returning to life. Rockefeller Center was built and the American Ballet Theatre was opened. The High School of Music & Art was also spearheaded by popular mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia - a sign and symbol of the city's investment in its youth.


West 46th Street New York City Street Scene 1940s Photo

Street View of 1940s New York. Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map.


Broadway & 47th Street, New York, 1944

Experience the sights and sounds of New York City as if you were visiting in the 1940s. A lot has changed since then, but not everything. #HistoryChannel #Fl.


30 Stunning Vintage Photos of New York City in the 1940s Vintage News

Outtakes is a collection of rare and fascinating photos that were not included in the 1940s NYC project, which documented every building in the city. Discover the hidden stories and scenes of New York City in the 1940s with these outtakes that capture the diversity, vibrancy, and challenges of the urban life.


Color Image of a New York Street, 1940s [1600x1200] HistoryPorn

new york times square with skyline during the 1940's - new york city 1940 stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images. View of the city skyline partially obscured by smog, New York, mid-1930s to late 1940s.


Daily Life in New York in the 1940s Told Through 25 B&W Images

Design Welcome to 1940s New York An interactive time capsule to all 116 New York City neighborhoods, from 1943. Courtesy of Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center By Eric.


New York City, 1940s Hemmings Daily

1940s NYC is a fascinating website that lets you explore the history and architecture of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. You can browse thousands of street photos of every building in the city, taken by the Works Progress Administration. Discover how the city looked like before the skyscrapers, the highways, and the urban renewal.


1940โ€™s New York Cityscapes

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Daily Life in New York in the 1940s Told Through 25 B&W Images

The project stalled during World War II, so most of the cataloged images were captured in the late 1930s and early 1940s. After the New York City Municipal Archives digitized the records in 2018.


New York in the 1940s A Look Back on NYC Through 45 Fantastic Found

1940s NYC is a new online interactive map created by NYC-based software engineer Julian Boilen. It's like Google Street View, except every photo taken shows New York City between 1939.


Fifth Avenue Looking North from 42nd Street. Manhattan. 1940s, photo by

Updated: August 22, 2018 | Original: May 22, 2018 copy page link Flashback: A Tour of 1940s New York City Experience the sights and sounds of New York City as if you were visiting in the.


Daily Life in New York in the 1940s Told Through 25 B&W Images

The Welcome to 1940s New York website from the CUNY Graduate Center provides photos, color-coded maps, statistics, and a brief narrative for 116 survey areas (approximations of the neighborhoods we know today) based on the 1940 Census and a market analysis published in 1943 by four local newspapers.


New York City, 1940s Hemmings Daily

To find the image of a building at a specific address in 1940, you will need the block and lot number for that address: Visit the NYCityMap website, enter the building's address, and click search.


New York City, 1940 Photograph by Granger Pixels

The software engineer launched the historic page 1940s.nyc on Aug. 11 โ€” dubbing it "Street View of 1940s New York" โ€” where he charted photos taken between 1939-1951 by the city Tax Department and the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration. Left: A tax photo of the old working waterfront where Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 5 now lives.


vintage everyday New York in the 1940s A Look Back NYC Through 45

New York City in the 1940s was buzzing with activity, with the population of Manhattan almost reaching 2 million inhabitants. These incredible black and white photographs, which document everyday life in New York City, are a glimpse back at this era.


Daily Life in New York in the 1940s Told Through 25 B&W Images

Support Us Search What was happening and when โ€” here's WNYC's timeline of some of the most significant events in the 1940s and.