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Video Shows The Lower East Side In The 1930s & Includes Original Street Sound

Original sound accompanies this fantastic footage from 1930s NYC.

Jen Carlson

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Photo: NYE In Times Square Looked Like Pure Chaos In 1938

NYE in Times Square: was it EVER fun?

Jen Carlson

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Video: Here's A Man Jumping Off The Brooklyn Bridge In 1930, For Sport

Watch daredevil Jack Latkowski took a Brodie off the bridge.

Jen Carlson

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New Yorker Complains About Bad Subway Etiquette In 1935

In 1935, one straphanger wrote into the NY Times about people taking up too much space in the subway.

Jen Carlson

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You Can Buy This 1930s Subway Car On eBay

Move over food trucks, what about a 1930s-era food-peddling subway car?

Jen Carlson

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Revisit Thousands Of Berenice Abbott's Photos Of 1930s NYC

Yesterday would have been the photographer's 116th birthday.

Jen Carlson

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1930s Map Shows Design For A 'New Manhattan'

This map shows more details for that 1930s plan to fill in the Hudson River.

Jen Carlson

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Photo: In 1939 There Were Blizzard Cones To Protect Your Face From The Cold

Shockingly these plastic cones you strapped to your face never took off.

Jen Carlson

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Video: Beautiful Color Footage Of 1930s New York City

This footage from 1939 New York City is beautiful, even if it only lasts for just three minutes.

Jen Carlson

Arts & Entertainment

Found Photos Show One Person's View Of 1930s NYC

Someone recently found a box of old negatives and had them to developed to find tons of 1930s NYC photos. Jackpot!

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