Here’s a collection of 30 amazing color photographs of New York City’s street scenes in the 1970s

A marvelous melding of art and history, Central Park NYC is the long awaiting new volume from artists/authors Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams.

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

Please also see: New Yorkers and Street scenes: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6 and also: Post No Bills ! Posters on NYC walls -1990's -

You’ve seen the first album of photographs from Manel Armengol’s trip to in New York in 1977 and 1978, when he went backstage to meet Divine. (And don’t miss his pictures of Barcelona under attack in the 1970s.) Here’s Album 2. Where politer European cities might have had street mimes, New York has … Continue reading "A European’s Views of New York In the 1970s"

At the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. It brought yet another all-time record high in violent crime. ...

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

We are on our way back home to England, stopping in New York and travelling home by ship to Southampton.

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.”