New York Metropolitan Vintage Photo/Video Collection

Skyscrapers near Trinity Church 1905

View from the Tribune Building 1909

Skyline 1910

Lower Manhattan 1930

Skyline 1950

Skyline 1962

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1964

1967

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Very nice pics ! Thank you to share !

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view from foot of Manhattan Life Building to Woolworth Building 1912.

Manhattan looking south along Broadway Woolworth Building 1913.

Newspaper Row 1907 World Building addation under construction.

The Brooklyn Bridge Promenade and Manhattan Terminal 1907

City Bank Farmers Trust Building, William & Beaver Streets 1931

all shorpy pics.

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Tribune Building reconstruction c. 1906

1945

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I’m not sure if this one was already sent here


Karl Struss - Lower New York, 1912


Alvin Langdon Coburn - House of a Thousand Windows, 1912

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140 Broadway

Columbus Circle; very low resolution but the Gotham Bank Building is at left in color a few years before its 1954 demolition
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Edit: another showing the lower floors in color, 1942

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View from the White Hall Building to West Street 1912.

Birds eye view of New York City from roof of Consoldidated Gas Building 1912.

Hudson River & Riverside Park, Battleships of the Atlantic Fleet 1910.

Columbia College 1897

Union Square 1910 the Germania Life Insurance Company Building is under construction

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The R.M.S. Lusitania on tne Hudson 1909

Troy line piers, R.M.S. Baltic at White Star Line piers in New York 1904

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Just a look at the recent conversion on a vintage NYC Building. The Woolworth.


Credit: FC

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This is not history but a icone from the old Skyscraper in Lower Manhattan.

Terra-cotta facade detail from the terrace.

Looking up at the tower crown from the terrace.

For more pics from the old Woolworth Building.

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A rendering for the Gotham National Bank Building

A rendering from the orginal Singer Building on the Northwest corner Broadway and Liberty Street.

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Liberty Street around 1925

1963 photo for comparison after Chase replaced the Mutual Life Building and the Guaranty Trust Bldg was gut renovated
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Esso Building under construction 1947

Esso Building under construction

Aerial view of Mid Manhattan looking northest summer 1947.

Lower Manhattan 1946

Aerial view of Mid Manhattan looking south spring 1961

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1937

1955

1939 view of the Brooklyn Bridge area; three big buildings shown are Rhinelander, Metropolitan Realty and 100 Gold Street Buildings

1967: 100 Gold Street is demolished

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Its amazing how the skyline change !

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Solow Building under construction 1970

The new 245 Park Ave Building under construction on foreground of this view of Park Ave. looking north the top of Pan Am Building on May 1966.

Aerial view of Lower Manhattan Spring 1960

Old Art Deco Lower Manhattan skyscrapers betweenWall Street area and Civic Center 1963

Nigth view of Lower Manhattan 1931

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I’m on a crusade to find photos of the old Home Insurance Building on John (1929 & 1932, partly razed 1965)

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The view from River House, 1931:

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