The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s. Then: Battery Park (1922) Now Then: Lower Manhattan No...

This is a great pic The Third ave and Second Ave El's met here That is a Forney steam engine pulling the coaches Third ave El Interior of a Blue Bird Brooklyn El construction Connecting the culver

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Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

What did old New York look like years ago, after night fell? Here's a peek at the 'city that never sleeps' as it appeared by the light of the moon, the stars... and the skyscrapers.

Pike and Henry Streets, Manhattan | Photo by Berenice Abbott

You can almost smell the air - they are that vivid.

Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library the plot old photos of New York City on an interactive map.