Some more stock photos I found from the 1950s and 1960s, from Shutterstock
1950: New Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, with the garage under construction
1950: Radio Row
1950: Park Row
1952: Irving Trust Building lit with a cross for Good Friday (Also the old Manhattan Life Building is on the right, once the world’s tallest)
Park Row and City Hall, 1954
Aerial of Trinity Church, 1955
1950s, undated
Singer Building base and tower, 1956
1957
1962: City Hall during a protest
1964: Woolworth Building from the Brooklyn Bridge during a protest
1964: Times Tower being stripped of its facade
1964: Chase Manhattan’s lights form a cross with the other towers downtown for Good Friday
September 1967: WTC site clearance and Singer Building demolition
1876 - shows just how necessary skyscrapers were for Manhattan.
https://www.skyscraper.org/skyline/new-york_1876-1900.html#images-1
https://www.skyscraper.org/skyline/skyline_1900-1916.html
https://www.skyscraper.org/skyline/5periods.html
https://www.skyscraper.org/skyline/skyline-1930-the-third-period.html
View from the Washington Building c. 1885
Those first two pics are incredible.
Funny thing the 1977 blackout 42nd anniversary was celebrated yesterday with another blackout 
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0CCuyzBNfY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0EfldshflJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/Byk_vmuh5bu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Bonus: World Trade Center Plaza Music (Last 15 seconds of the video is the Plaza music playing during 9/11)
David Rockefeller at the Chase Construction site, 1958
Apollo 11 Parade as it passes the AT&T Building, 1969
Looking down from One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 1965
140 Broadway, 1969. (the demolition scaffolding is the infamous Chock Full o’ Nuts at Zuccotti Park as it was being reduced to 2 stories, it stayed until 1980)
Chase Manhattan Plaza, Federal Reserve Bank, and the old Home Insurance Building, 1969
Highway signs near the foot of the old elevated West Side Highway, 1969
Chase Manhattan at night, seen from the Singer Building, 1965
Lower Manhattan at dusk, 1968
FIlmed circa 1964, shows a contrast between old masonry buildings of the past and then-new curtain wall buildings on Broadway and Park Ave
Interestingly around 2:35 you can see buildings on the site of Louise Nevelson Park and that pink Liberty Street monstrosity
The one thing I like about all of these pics is realizing that the vast majority of NY’s beautiful old buildings are still around.
Videos of the Twin Towers.
Weehawken NJ
Great pics. Does anyone know what that building with the dome roof is on the left side of the last pic?
This is the Mecca Temple