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The Mobster’s Lament Gallery

A selection of images from a board I set up on Pinterest. For the full selection, check them out on Pinterest…

"Bird"
Williamsburg Bridge, New York, 1947
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirl applying lipstick.]
new york, 1947 photo by robert frank, from street seen: the psychological gesture in american photography, 1940–1959
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: New York City, Queens
Downtown skyscrapers from East River pier (1941)
Manhattan's skyscrapers from Jersey City ferry boat (1941)
Iconic: Compelling portraits of everyday life, like this image of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1938, form the heart of a new exhibit at The Jewish Museum
Striking image: Lightning flies across the sky above the Empire State Building in 1945, while an American flag at street level flaps in the storm
Mobster Frank Costello, NYC, 1949.
Wash day: Huge numbers of sheets and other laundry items criss-cross the gap between tenements in New York in 1937
Shot from The Naked City - Columbus Circle
Union Square
Berenice Abbott. 1936. Columbus Circle
Louis Faurer
Serving up a treat: This Italian restaurant - in 1945 - was near the offices of Acme Newspictures, where photographer Ida Wyman became their first female photo printer
Shoeshine Boy with Cop.jpg
Forgotten era: Arthur Leipzig's 'Ideal Laundry' from 1946 is another iconic shot on display that captures the essence of 1940s New York City
On the streets: Children are pictured by an empty lot, left, and on the sidewalk, right
Slums: This photo from 1947 in the Lower East Side shows an advert for the film Gentleman's Agreement, which addressed the persistence of anti-Semitism in the U.S.
Louis Faurer
New York City, 1952 © Walker Evans.
Henri Cartier-Bresson :: Brooklyn, New York City, 1947
Fifth Ave, New York, 1947. Photo: Elliott Erwitt.
South Ferry bums, on a bench at noon hour at Battery Park (1941)
View up Moss Ave. (1942)
Louis Faurer, Untitled, 1947
Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York. 1947 [::SemAp Twitter || SemAp::]
New York City, 1947. Photo by Stanley Kubrick.
South Street teems with trucks along East River, New York City (1941)
Skyscrapers, Looking toward the Financial District from an East River pier, New York City (1941)
Looking up into Financial District from South Ferry (1941)
Residents of lower Clinton St near East river, Saturday afternoon (1941)
Chinese store windows, New York (1942)
new york 1950 | Serie New York Vintage : Times Square at night. February 1950. Photo ...
5th Avenue after the blizzard, New York, 1948 - by Andreas Feininger
A Father strolling with his child at Lower East Side by the Brooklyn Bridge. New York City, in 1947...this picture just made me smile
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos Mais
Street in New York's Chinatown (1942)
Southeast corner of 1st St. and Bowery (1942)
Old lady reads Sunday paper, Lower East Side (1942)
Poverty, young and old, black and white (1942)
Old Penn station
Gordon Parks. 1943. Harlem boys.
Chalk one up: Arthur Leipzig's 'Chalk Games' captures several children in their element in 1950 in Prospect Place, Brooklyn
Ruth Orkin. Jumping
Italian bake shop below Canal St. 58 Mulberry St. New York (1942)
Gordon Parks. 1948. Untitled.
Gordon Parks ephemeralnewyork....
Radio City Music Hall Mark Kauffman #newyork, #NYC, #pinsland, apps.facebook.com...
Winter in New York City, 2nd Avenue in 1947.
1947 Blizzard in New York City | LIFE in the Snow: Photos From the Great Blizzard of 1947 | LIFE.com
Ruth Orkin. Famous Malted Milk, NYC c.1950
Gordon Parks, 1948. Harlem rooftops.
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirls performing.]
Laundry airing in Hell's Kitchen MCNY UntappedNY | Untapped Cities
Ruth Orkin. The Man in the Rain, New York
This photograph, entitled Broken Window on South Street, from 1948, shows New York's skyscrapers from the perspective of a shabby area
Grand-Central-Terminal-Interior-Vintage-Untapped-Cities
Dancing school: This image shows a group of girls at a dancing school in Harlem in 1938, which was opened by Mary Bruce, who taught ballet and tap for 50 years
Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El in photos at new Transit Museum exhibit - Curbed NY
Gordon Parks. 1948. Untitled.
Photo: Robert Frank. New York, 1947.
NYC 1940's something.
Billie Holiday au Café Society, New York, 1947. Photo de Gjon Mili.
A Modernist: Bird at The Three Deuces (1948)
1947 Blizzard, New York City photo via vintage ~ with one of my all time favorite Christmas movies up on the billboard
Peggy Lee at the Copa Lounge. 1950
Virginia Hill, Benjamin Siegel's girlfriend.
Delahaye 135 convertible 1946
A blizzard in New York City, 1947.
Louis Faurer . 1947-51
Delahaye 135 convertible 1946
POLICE NY precinct map Manhattan North
Manhattan tram map – 1946
www.nycsubway.org
New York, N.Y., Louis Faurer, 1946 #truenewyork #lovenyc
Louis Faurer, 1948
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirls performing.]
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirls performing.]
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Dancers on stage.]
Brazilian performer, Carmen MIranda ~ the queen of accessories! (1909-1955)
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirl in her dressing room.]
[Portrait of Charlie Parker, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. 1947] | Library of Congress
Stanley Kubrick. 1948. Copacabana Girl [Showgirl in her dressing room.]
At the Pied Piper, 1947

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