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.”

Lower east side NY apartments c.1920s/30s

What we need to understand about the Irish Temperance Movement boils down to this: during the early 1800s the Irish society had a serious drinking problem.

𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟎, 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥: Sunlight streams through the windows into the concourse. A sight that today is rarer due to the ban on…

Easter on 5th Ave 1928

1914 Train in New York City. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

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