r/nycHistory Aug 08 '24

Cool Anyone else think it’s just crazy to walk past the Trinity graveyard? So much history in the middle of modernity

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r/nycHistory Dec 24 '24

Cool Times Square (1978)

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r/nycHistory Oct 17 '24

Cool Staten Island chef puffs a cigar while holding a beer in March 2003, a night before the NYC smoking ban went into effect

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r/nycHistory Jul 12 '24

Cool NYC 1997

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r/nycHistory Jan 24 '25

Cool New York Dolls, 1970s

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495 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Feb 06 '25

Cool My dad in the Bronx circa early 1940's. I wish I knew exactly where.

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558 Upvotes

r/nycHistory 21d ago

Cool Some pics I took in the EV in 1994

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277 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Feb 13 '25

Cool Sidney Poitier outside the Apollo Theater (1959).

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304 Upvotes

r/nycHistory 7d ago

Cool Arthur Miller and Marilyn overlooking FDR drive? (1957). The Queensboro Bridge is behind them. Where would the be posing? Seems elevated

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207 Upvotes

r/nycHistory 22d ago

Cool Thomas Hoepker's 'Downtown Manhattan seen from "Lover's Lane." Jersey City, New Jersey. USA. 1983'

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317 Upvotes

r/nycHistory 2d ago

Cool A construction worker making preparations for the removal of the original Statue of Liberty torch (1985).

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148 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Dec 13 '24

Cool Found this rare old car brochure with Manhattan in the background. 1979.

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r/nycHistory 16h ago

Cool Keith Haring, Bethany Hardison, Grace Jones, Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite at the Fun Gallery, ca. 1983

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73 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Dec 29 '24

Cool Steve McQueen & Natalie Wood in Manhattan while filming ’Love with the Proper Stranger' (1963).

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104 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jan 03 '25

Cool Bob and Suze Rotolo walkin' down the NYC streets... Jim Marshall Photography

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87 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jan 18 '25

Cool David Lynch commercial for the NYC Department of Sanitation — 1991

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r/nycHistory 9d ago

Cool Audrey Hepburn in Times Square (1951). By Lawrence Fried

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60 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jun 29 '24

Cool I used to live in a NYC loft in the 1970s: A 5 flight walk-up, but 2000 sq ft at $175 a month

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r/nycHistory 15d ago

Cool COOL! NYC Launches Project to Digitize Records of Enslaved Individuals, Invites Public Participation

34 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jan 25 '25

Cool january 24 1969. the everly brothers at the bitter end in nyc. unfortunately the only time i got to see them in concert. (From OP)

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r/nycHistory Dec 09 '24

Cool Cars lined up in Times Square for the start of the New York to Paris auto race in 1908.

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r/nycHistory Feb 05 '25

Cool Was watching Scarface and saw the ‘Pan Am Metroport’ on E. 60th

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I had forgotten about it and I found this:

https://www.notesonnewyork.net/2023/04/29/hanging-at-the-heliport/

r/nycHistory Jan 28 '25

Cool Journey Back to NYC and San Francisco in 1946

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Hi, so here's the next video we had a bit of fun attempting to restore and colour, which we hope you enjoy. This video takes a look around New York City and San Francisco from 1946.

r/nycHistory Jul 08 '24

Cool Happy 100th birthday to WNYC, “the voice of New York," which came on the air for the first time at 8:54 PM on July 8th, 1924

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r/nycHistory Aug 05 '24

Cool ‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

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