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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

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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)

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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

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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

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