New York in Black and White, Part IV

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Andre Kertesz photos

Brooklyn, 1947.

Lower 5th Avenue, 1948.

East River Esplanade, 1948.

Metropolitan Life and Empire State, 1950.

City, 1952.

Skyline with Rooster, 1952.

Washington Square, 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.

Cleopatra Jones and Woody Allen,1971.

Lying Men, Washington Sq. Kertesz, 1974.

Kertesz, 1979.

World Trade Center. Dennis Stock, 2001.

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Three New York Buildings

Chrysler.

Chrysler.

Two Greatest Beaux-Arts Buildings Demolished:

The main waiting room of Penn Station. Groined vaults in coffered stone.

The Baths of Caracalla.

The way to the trains.

Groined vaults in steel and glass.

Seventh Avenue. McKim, Meade and White, architects. 1903-63. The building made it to age 60.

613 feet!! In 1908!

Ernest Flagg was the architect.

This building also made it to age 60 [1908-68].

Another five years and they would have preserved it.

French Beaux-Arts.

Vacant and awaiting demolition.

From Broadway.

Queen Elizabeth and skyline. Andre Kertesz, 1958.

[Neo]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time (I know it took a while) to put these up for the world to see! A most excellent historical tour of New York City. Where did you manage to find all of these?

[Brickcity]

Awesome serries.

[Allan]

Awesome pics! To this day it still amazes me that they demolished the Singer Building. That was a mistake, but there's nothing we can do about it now.