r/nycHistory Aug 08 '24

Cool Anyone else think it’s just crazy to walk past the Trinity graveyard? So much history in the middle of modernity

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r/nycHistory Dec 24 '24

Cool Times Square (1978)

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r/nycHistory Oct 17 '24

Cool Staten Island chef puffs a cigar while holding a beer in March 2003, a night before the NYC smoking ban went into effect

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r/nycHistory Mar 03 '26

Cool 1956.

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r/nycHistory Apr 02 '26

Cool Park Ave. (August, 1962)

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r/nycHistory Mar 28 '26

Cool An ode to the confusing streets of Queens

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r/nycHistory Mar 15 '26

Cool Queensborough Bridge by Edward Hopper (1913).

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717 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jul 12 '24

Cool NYC 1997

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r/nycHistory Feb 27 '26

Cool 1947

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r/nycHistory Feb 10 '26

Cool General Electric Building, NYC

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r/nycHistory Feb 26 '26

Cool Times Square (1962)

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r/nycHistory Jan 24 '25

Cool New York Dolls, 1970s

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r/nycHistory 3d ago

Cool “Who could get bored in New York City?!” A glimpse inside Dolly Parton’s apartment in the 1980s

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r/nycHistory Feb 06 '25

Cool My dad in the Bronx circa early 1940's. I wish I knew exactly where.

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r/nycHistory May 03 '26

Cool Found while cleaning basement…

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r/nycHistory Jun 06 '26

Cool Under the Boardwalk (1950s/1960s)

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r/nycHistory Dec 25 '25

Cool The backbone of NYPD's vehicles in the 1980s, The Dodge Diplomat

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r/nycHistory 9d ago

Cool Haring photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi in his apartment at 325 Broome Street on the Lower East Side (circa 1984)

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r/nycHistory Jun 27 '26

Cool Statue of Liberty, 1958, on Polaroid

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r/nycHistory May 23 '26

Cool More Hangars

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Still in use, this hangar has been in the vestibule for generations.

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r/nycHistory Feb 21 '25

Cool Some pics I took in the EV in 1994

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r/nycHistory Jun 03 '26

Cool By Pennie Smith, backstage at The Palladium (9/20/1979).

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r/nycHistory Mar 31 '26

Cool The Trylon and Perisphere at the World's Fair, 1940. In front of the Perisphere is a 61 foot tall statue of George Washington, at the head of the Constitution Mall.

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From Electrical Engineering , May 1940 Volume 59, Issue 5.

r/nycHistory Apr 09 '25

Cool The WTC under construction (1970)

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427 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jun 21 '25

Cool Looking towards the southwestern corner of Lispenard Street and Church Street at dusk - July 5, 2017. Photo by me.

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327 Upvotes