Retro New York on Instagram: “31st and 3rd Avenue, 1952. 📸: Ernst Haas”

Retro New York on Instagram: “Times Square, 1950s. 📸: unknown”

See how Times Square transformed from seedy to safe during the 1990s in these vintage photos.

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.”

From "New York", photography by Bernard Hermann, text by Gilbert Millstein, 1977

New York is one of the most amazing cities in the world, but it was actually even better in the 80s than it is now. Here are a few things we wish were still true about the Big Apple, and catch the The CW's “The Carrie Diaries,” based on the bestselling prequel to “Sex and the City,” Fridays at 8/7c.

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NYC "Street Chess" - 1986 - photo by Yvon Maurice