Old pictures of Queens

c. 1912

Howard Orphanage

1910

Vacation Bungalows

1905

Queensboro Bridge (aka 59th St Bridge) under construction.

1917

Brooklyn's drafted men leaving Long Island

1890

Pre-Flatiron Building at 23rd Street and Broadway

1916

Al Capone

1918

Kent Avenue shop.

1918

Start of an auto race

1946

Horse upstairs!

1947

Ice cream truck

1949

An Ice Cream Truck in Brooklyn

1942

Brooklyn suicide attempt

1920

Ebbets Field

1936

Pots-and-pans peddler

c. 1903

Brooklyn Bridge

c. 1910

An organ grinder on the streets

c. 1905

Little Italy

1901

Chinatown

1913

Neurotic and epileptic

1950

A bricklayer working

1947

On the beach

1949

Sunday on Coney Island

1954

Amusement park

1904

On the sands

1943

Little Italy in Manhattan

1921

Greenwich Village

1932

New York, lower Manhattan

1905

Broad Street

1929

The Great Depression Begins

1930

A construction worker

1918

Hotel Marguery

1966

Construction of Madison Square Garden

1892

Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the long-distance line

1860

The Fifth Avenue Hotel

1928

16th street, south side

1974

Tightrope walker Philippe Petit between the towers of the World Trade Center

1937

Lafayette Hotel, University Place and 9th Street,

1938

Lower Manhattan skyline at night

1913

J.P. Morgan walking alongside his son in the last known photograph of the two together

1912

Surviving Passengers of the Titanic

1954

Workers reinstall clock in Grand Central

1955

Fat Men's Shop

1937

Rockefeller Ctr.

1938

Subway Road Comes up for air in Brooklyn