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New York Transportation HistoryCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1920
Reclining man looming over New York City subway station
The history of New York City's transportation system. New York City is distinguished from other U.S. cities for its low personal automobile ownership and its significant use of public transportation. New York is the only city in the United States where over half of all households do not own a car (Manhattan's non-ownership is even higher, around 75%; nationally, the rate is 8%). New York City has, by far, the highest rate of public transportation use of any American city. New York City also has the longest mean travel time for commuters (39 minutes) among major U.S. cities.

The Second Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the city – the port infrastructure grew at such a rapid pace after the 1825 completion of the Erie Canal that New York became the most important connection between all of Europe and the interior of the United States. Elevated trains and subterranean transportation ('El trains' and 'subways') were introduced between 1867 and 1904. Private automobiles brought an additional change for the city by around 1930, notably the 1927 Holland Tunnel.
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A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New York City & Brooklyn, New York, New York County, NY

Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...

Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Pat Keenan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Pat Keenan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows a ticket booth, with Pat Keenan, possibly on the Broadway subway line in New York City which opened in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Ser... More

Map of the new subway of greater New York : (Interborrow system)

Map of the new subway of greater New York : (Interborrow system)

Folded title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Information desk

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 584. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

Mott Street, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Mott Street, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Chinatown. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018616. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Subway porter, George Grantham Bain Collection

Subway porter, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows an African American women with a duster, working as a subway porter at a subway station, New York City, 1917. Numberr on cap says: "IRT 3594 Porter." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Tit... More

South Street Seaport, Piers 17 & 18, South Street into East River at Fulton Street, New York, New York County, NY

South Street Seaport, Piers 17 & 18, South Street into East River at F...

Significance: Piers 17 and 18, located in the South Street Historic District Extension, stand as physical evidence of the water-oriented economy of New York City in its developmental years. The current piers w... More

Broadway at night from Times Square, New York, N.Y.

Broadway at night from Times Square, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500720. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Train station [Victoria Station, London] - Public domain photograph.

Train station [Victoria Station, London] - Public domain photograph.

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's bazaar, 1951. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 28. (Call number: TR653.F... More

Outdoor advertisement in New York, New York, for Amtrak's new Acela Express high-speed train prior to its rollout in 2000

Outdoor advertisement in New York, New York, for Amtrak's new Acela Ex...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Broadway and tower of Singer Building, looking from roof of Post Office, New York, U.S.A.

Broadway and tower of Singer Building, looking from roof of Post Offic...

Stereograph showing an elevated view overlooking downtown and skyscrapers. H107544 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by H.C. White Co. On mount: H.C. White Co., Chicago, New York, London ; The "Perfec" Ster... More

New York, New York. Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station

New York, New York. Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 44-46 John Street, New York, New York County, NY

Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 44-46 John Street, New Yor...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29, FN-52 Survey number: HABS NY-4-27 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction

Syracuse City Hall, Washington Street, Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY

Syracuse City Hall, Washington Street, Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY

Significance: The site of Syracuse City Hall has been the center of Syracuse's municipal government since 1846. At that time municipal offices were housed in a portion of the old "Market Hall" (ca. 1845). The b... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Lackawanna Terminal, Main Street & Buffalo River, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Lackawanna Terminal, Main Str...

Significance: The terminal's double deck train shed, attributed to Lincoln Bush, is considered to be significant as an early example of the innovative use of reinforced concrete. Unprocessed Field note materia... More

Night scene on the New York Central Railroad., American Express company's special express train

Night scene on the New York Central Railroad., American Express compan...

P7783 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Pratt, J.W. & Co.

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

The modern colossus of (rail) roads / J. Keppler.

The modern colossus of (rail) roads / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows William Henry Vanderbilt, president of the New York Central Railroad and several other railroads, Cyrus West Field, of the New York Elevated Railroad Company, and Jay Gould, of the Union Paci... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...

Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction

Electric locomotive, N.Y.C. R.R. New York Central Railroad

Electric locomotive, N.Y.C. R.R. New York Central Railroad

"New York Central Lines" and "N.Y.C. & H.R." on train. "36" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019934. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Twenty-Third Street ferry terminal, New York, N.Y.

Twenty-Third Street ferry terminal, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "Bremen" on ferry at left; "Lackawanna" on terminal inbackground. "H 478" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036469. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Reclining man looming over New York City subway station

Reclining man looming over New York City subway station

Montage photograph shows gigantic man in suit and bowler hat superimposed over street scene. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for ... More

View from the inside of the clock face on Portland, Oregon's, historic Union Station's 150-foot-high tower, the signature feature of the 1896 terminal, designed by the renowned New York architecture firm of McKim, Mead, and White

View from the inside of the clock face on Portland, Oregon's, historic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, New York, New York County, NY

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-nint...

Survey number: HAER NY-307 Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Labor Day parade, Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.

Labor Day parade, Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "Xtra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032176. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Looking N.E. over the curve of the Manhattan elevated railway at 110th Street (60 ft. high) New York

Looking N.E. over the curve of the Manhattan elevated railway at 110th...

H42455 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C. No. 2.

Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York

Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York

Title devised by cataloger. "G 349" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09349. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New York City & Brooklyn, New York, New York County, NY

Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...

Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More

South Street Seaport, Piers 17 & 18, South Street into East River at Fulton Street, New York, New York County, NY

South Street Seaport, Piers 17 & 18, South Street into East River at F...

Significance: Piers 17 and 18, located in the South Street Historic District Extension, stand as physical evidence of the water-oriented economy of New York City in its developmental years. The current piers w... More

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...

Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

Counties Slips, New York City, U.S.A

Counties Slips, New York City, U.S.A

H10414 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1901 by R. R. Whiting. On mount: Twentieth Century Series. No. 423.

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus terminal, 34th Street

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus ter...

Public domain photograph of bus station, bus terminal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map of the New York city subway system

Map of the New York city subway system

Puzzle pieces fit within frame on cardboard base. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

City Hall subway station, New York

City Hall subway station, New York

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Repair work going on in background. "343" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017293. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Manhattan Bridge, made March 23rd, 1909

Manhattan Bridge, made March 23rd, 1909

Marine terminal in foreground; bridge under construction in background. H127329 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York. No. D-441.

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...

Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction

Center Street from Park Row, New York, U.S.A

Center Street from Park Row, New York, U.S.A

44352 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1892 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toronto; Ottawa, Kas; El Paso, Tex.

Curve at Brooklyn Terminal, New York & Brooklyn Bridge / George P. Hall & Son, photographers, New York.

Curve at Brooklyn Terminal, New York & Brooklyn Bridge / George P. Hal...

66751-A10271 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on lower left: Copyright 1898 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, Photographers, New York.

[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.]

[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.]

Photograph shows street scene with a double-decker bus at the left.

Macy's Bldg. & Herald Square - Drawing. Public domain image.

Macy's Bldg. & Herald Square - Drawing. Public domain image.

H101849 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 6238. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

[Bus load of children of Paterson, N.J., strikers (silk workers) in May Day parade - New York City]

[Bus load of children of Paterson, N.J., strikers (silk workers) in Ma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Classic waiting room inside the historic Utica New York, train station was opened for the New York Central in 1914

Classic waiting room inside the historic Utica New York, train station...

The station became a union station a year later the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad moved their services to the riverside facility as well. Amtrak passengers... More

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...

Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction

West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-fifth & West Fifty-sixth Streets, Manhattan, New York, New York County, NY

West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-...

Significance: The piers at West 55th and West 56th streets are important and rare remains of historic transatlantic commerce in the Port of New York, being two of only three municipal piers built for this traff... More

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

Longshoreman eats hot dog / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna.

Longshoreman eats hot dog / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna.

Photograph showing a head-and-shoulder portrait of longshoreman, Robert Malak, eating a hot dog. NYWT&S staff photograph. Handwritten note on verso: "Longshoreman Robert Malak has hot dog lunch at Nathan's Cone... More

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City

The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53619. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, New York, New York County, NY

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-nint...

Survey number: HAER NY-307 Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

New York City - improved project of a covered atmospheric elevated railway for city transit, by Dr. R.H. Gilbert

New York City - improved project of a covered atmospheric elevated rai...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 March 18, p. 1.

Street in New York City - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Street in New York City - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title devised by cataloger. Identified as view of Fifth Avenue looking south from 60th Street, (8/1995, C. Gray) "G 320" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09320. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR

Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Boxing mail -- N.Y. Post Office

Boxing mail -- N.Y. Post Office

Photograph shows Pennsylvania Terminal Post Office (General Post Office Building), now called the James A. Farley Building, located at 421 Eighth Avenue, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Ti... More

Hammond's subway system map of New York City (Manhattan and The Bronx) : showing all subways in separate colors, also ... index of streets and avenues

Hammond's subway system map of New York City (Manhattan and The Bronx)...

Title from cover. "Copyright by the City of New York. Copyright by C.S. Hammond & Co." LC copy imperfect: Use-worn, brittle, torn at fold lines, taped, annotated in lead-pencil, rubber-stamped, cover annotated ... More

[52nd Street, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948]

[52nd Street, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948]

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Bowery, New York City view, photochrome print postcard.

The Bowery, New York City view, photochrome print postcard.

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53621. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

[View of B.T. Babbitt's "best soap" factory buildings, New York City] / J.A. Shearman.

[View of B.T. Babbitt's "best soap" factory buildings, New York City] ...

Drawing from elevated perspective shows a soap factory, roof tops, street activity, and 9th Avenue elevated railroad, looking northwest across the Hudson River to the New Jersey Palisades. Inscribed upper righ... More

New York City--The development of rapid transit - the first train on the Gilbert Elevated Railroad passing through Sixth Avenue, near the Jefferson Market Police Court, April 29th

New York City--The development of rapid transit - the first train on t...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 46, no. 1,182 (1878 May 25), p. 201.

Looking along the Bridge from Brooklyn to New York

Looking along the Bridge from Brooklyn to New York

83938 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1899, by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York; London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas.

Mott St., New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Mott St., New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "705-11" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012682. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.

Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30841. Title devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062021. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Broadway and Times Building (One Times Square), New York City

Broadway and Times Building (One Times Square), New York City

Title from jacket. "Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033879. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Ticket office, City Hall subway station, New York

Ticket office, City Hall subway station, New York

"338" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017292. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Election night in New York -- Times B'ld'g. and the "Great White Way" (B'dway from 42nd to 34th Sts.)

Election night in New York -- Times B'ld'g. and the "Great White Way" ...

H89656 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.). Patented April 14, 1903. No. 69.

Suffragettes at train tracks, New York

Suffragettes at train tracks, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Third Avenue Elevated, New York, New York County, NY

Third Avenue Elevated, New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-6373 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus terminal, 34th Street

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus ter...

Public domain photograph of bus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Women waiting for an elevated train at 67th Street and Third Avenue station, 8:30 a.m

New York, New York. Women waiting for an elevated train at 67th Street...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of W...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War In...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior detail

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 592. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 581. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Model in construction

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 544. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 587. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Early model

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 532. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Grossinger's bus, Liberty, New York

Grossinger's bus, Liberty, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Clipper ship Great Republic. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

Clipper ship Great Republic. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope...

Photograph shows the Clipper Ship Great Republic docked at the Wall Street Ferry terminal, Brooklyn, New York City, N.Y. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GNY 4. Forms part o... More

Looking down on New York's skyscrapers--from Woolworth Tower (S.W.) over Battery to Statue of Liberty and harbor

Looking down on New York's skyscrapers--from Woolworth Tower (S.W.) ov...

Stereograph showing an elevated view looking down on various skyscrapers. J218946 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 16774.

A black and white photo of a woman bending over. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman bending over. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...

Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More

Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...

Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More

Ellis Island, Ferry Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Ferry Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York Coun...

Survey number: HABS NY-6086-D Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000058

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Spanning East River between Whitestone, Queens & the Bronx, Bronx, Bronx County, NY

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Spanning East River between Whitestone, Queen...

Survey number: HAER NY-308 Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction

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