Fotografía Nueva York a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX [FOTOS]

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Columbus Circle, 1933. No Time-Warner, no Trump International, no Venetian palazzetto.


Just $24 in1626? More than that in 1933


Three-point perspective, 1934.


Chambers at Oak. Horse-drawn wagon.


Bowery.


Henry St. Beyond, Towers of Zenith loom in the mist.


Mad King Ludwig in Greenwich Village: Jeferson Market, then Jefferson Courthouse, now Jefferson Library, 6th Avenue.


Murray Hill Hotel with fancy fire escape.


Cities Service Tower. Horse-drawn wagons lingered into the mid-sixties


Prickly skyline with famous bridge, 1935.


Times Square, 1935. Betty Boop on the marquee. The Astor came down mid-sixties, along with Penn Station and Singer Building: a bad time for beaux-arts. Streetcars in the square, no overhead wires.


Times Square looking South to Times Building. Mid-sixties this was stripped to steel skeleton and re-clothed in kitsch marble by mod illustrator Peter Max. More bad times for beaux-arts.


The El featured potbellied stoves.


Fifth Avenue bus in Washington Square


Dapper in front of Dock Department.


Billie’s Bar, First Ave. at 56th.


Bowery and Doyer. 3rd Ave. El.


Christopher and Bleecker. A wood-clad survivor.


Church of God, E. 132nd St.


Ferry, Chambers St.


Greyhound and Penn Station.


Herald Sq. Chain-drive trucks also survived into the sixties.


Milk Truck, Greenwich Village.


Newspaper (Park) Row. Center building once tallest. Berenice Abbott.


Park Ave. and 39th.


At Hudson River terminus of Cortlandt St., motorized and horse-drawn vans transferred goods to and from barge-borne railcars.


Pike and Henry, Lower East Side, with Manhattan Bridge and a horse.


S. Klein On-The-Square, Union Sq. Contraposto


Union Square with Turkish subway kiosk. Is that man using a cellphone??


Magnificent Manhattan spires from Willow and Poplar, Brooklyn. Cathedrals of Commerce.


Berenice Abbott photos, 1937


Avenue D and 10th St. Chain-drive truck.


Hester Street.


Riverside Drive Viaduct. .


Oyster House, South Street, under Manhattan Bridge, with pile of oyster shells.


Father Duffy, Times Square. Andre Kertesz, 1937


Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn (now DUMBO), Kertesz, 1937


Henry Hudson Parkway at 72nd St.: fancy interchange. Fairchild Aerial Surveys, 1937


Rockefeller Ctr., 1937. St. Thomas’ Church at left, site of Jackie O’s funeral. Fairchild


Simply Add Boiling Water, 1937. Photo by Weegee


The old Met(ropolitan Opera), Garment District, 1937. Weegee.


Still clean and gleaming, the Towers of Zenith, 1937

Berenice Abbott, 1938


Duke Mansion, a tobacco tycoon’s, 1 E. 78th St. at Fifth Ave.


40th between 6th and 7th. Zoning generates the form


Flam & Flam, Lawyers, 165 E. 121st St.


Wall Street from 60 Wall.


From 60 Wall Street.


Cathedral Parkway (110th Street)


Columbus Circle. Building with Coke sign another of Hearst’s skyscraper bases. Unlike the one Foster is currently completing, this one was torn down for the Gulf and Western Building, now re-imagined by Phillip Johnson as the Trump International Hotel.


Jefferson Market with the hulking, deco Women’s House of Detention behind (now demolished for a park). From the barred, open windows, the ladies would hurl obscenities at passersby.


504-506 Broome St. Ancient.


Union Square West. A hilarious jumble gets A+ for accidental design. These lots once held town houses. Their dainty footprints have been preserved, so the buildings have a delicate scale regardless of their height. One is a miniature skyscraper. Scale-obsessed NIMBYs take note: you need to object to a building’s footprint, not its height.


From Jersey, the classic skyline view.


Subway Portrait. Walker Evans, 1938.


Artists and Poets, Washington Sq., 1939


42nd Street Beauties, looking west, 1939


Clipper, 1939. Europe in 29 hours.


DC-4 Over Midtown, 1939. Hood’s Daily News Building lower right.


Fish market meets railroad under Roebling’s bridge, 1939.


Abandoned in the downpour, 1939. West Side.


Forty-second Street


Sixth Avenue El, 1940


Downtown from Empire State. Andre Kertesz, 1940


1940 Photos by Andreas Feininger


Ninth Avenue El, 8th at 127th, Harlem.


The Bowery.


Bryant Park.


Downtown Skyport with Cities Service Tower.


The original twin towers.


Tower trio. Slender flattop is Irving Trust, tower at right now belongs to Trump.


New York’s greatest walk.


Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.


Girlies.


Downtown gunsmith


Three icons: Empire State; Horn and Hardart (The Automat), New York’s original restaurant chain, long gone; lamp standard, now being re-installed.


Elevated.


Central Park looking southeast toward Grand Army Plaza. The baronial Savoy-Plaza Hotel dominates with its vast, vaguely French roof and twin chimneys: another major Beaux-Arts landmark demolished mid-sixties. Replaced by Stone’s vapid GM Building, recently acquired by Trump.


Elevated station, Downtown.


Underwear and kosher chickens.


What happens when you burn coal.


A Greek temple burning coal.


Flatiron with Fifth Avenue bus.


Garment District stacked factories steam hats


Arm wrestling in Harlem.


Harlem night club.


Lower East Side, tenement city, looking north.


Streetwall: Park Avenue South.


Raymond Hood, master of Deco.


Seventh Avenue.


South Street, now a theme park and mall.


At the foot of 42nd Street: Normandie with three fat stacks in the middle, Queen Mary with three skinnier stacks at bottom. Normandie burned here, Nazi sabotage claimed. Normandie was that time’s biggest and fastest (Blue Ribbon)

1941 Photos by Feininger


Forty-second Street. Mid-size Beaux-Arts skyscraper on north side of street is Times Building, of New Year’s fame. Building still exists but reclad in mid-sixties.


Classic skyline view with America, junior edition United States.


Downtown from Jersey.


Midtown from Jersey


Horror vacui, Hebrew style


The hats match the canopies. Macy’s, 34th St


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Charles W. Cushman Photos, 1941


The classic pyramid, here with harbor traffic and puffs of pollution.


Suits on the pier. What are these men doing?


Fulton St. from South St.


Broome St. and Baruch Pl., Lower East Side. Not a sidewalk café.


Lower East Side: street as living room.


Lower East Side: street as conference room


Municipal Building, Courthouse and Jail. Big arch seemed futile before El removed.
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, 1941


Charles Cushman photos, 1942.


Lunch, 5 Cents: looking up Broadway to Singer Building.


Collecting the Salvage on Lower East Side.


Pearl Street, 1942.


Central Park. Feininger, 1943.


The Fashionable People [harassed by the homeless]. Weegee, 1943.


Murder in Hell’s Kitchen. Weegee, 1944.


Coney Island. Weegee, 1945.


The photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig).


Hole where plane (B-25) hit Empire State Building, 1945.

Andre Kertesz photos


Brooklyn, 1947. Andre Kertesz.


Lower 5th Avenue. Kertesz, 1948.


East River Esplanade. Kertesz, 1948.


Metropolitan Life and Empire State. Kertes, 1950.


City. Kertesz, 1952.


Skyline with Rooster. Kertesz, 1952.


Washington Square. Kertesz, 1954.


A city of spires. Just before the flattop invasion, late fifties.


First view of Manhattan from the Queen Elizabeth, 1953. The module of the window.


Liberty, 1954.


Times Square with James Dean. Dennis Stock, 1955.


Balcony. Kertesz, 1957.


Guggenheim under construction, 1958. Car and building share design philosophy.


MacDougal Alley. Kertesz,1958.


Sixth Avenue. Kertesz, 1959.


Man Sleeping. Kertesz, 1960


Whitehall street from Peter Minuit Plaza near Battery. Cushman, 1960.


Four photos by Kertesz


Rooftop, 1961


Harlem, 1963.


Washington Square, 1969. Edge of Arch at left.


Washington Square Arch, 1970


Woody Allen and Cleopatra Jones,1971


Lying Men, Washington Sq. Kertesz, 1974.


Kertesz, 1979.

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