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Call me - “There are thousands in the phone booth”

Danny Lyon, Woman in phone booth, from The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, 1966-67

9th May 2012✧16:28402 notes

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Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws spellbinding 18ft picture of New York from memory… after a 20-minute helicopter ride over city.

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8th May 2012✧06:01142,948 notes

Alan Wolfson - Canal Street Cross-Section
Miniature depiction of the New York street and subway station.
“I wanted to build a piece that resembled a core sample of a city street. As though you took a street, dug it up, and lifted it straight off the earth. “Canal St. Cross-Section” is a combination of five major pieces built into one box. There’s a street scene on the top with a subway entrance on the corner. Looking down into the subway entrance, you are led to the two subterranean levels of the piece, both of which have intersecting cross views visible through the small windows on the sides of the piece.” -Alan Wolfson (via jocundist: canal street cross-section)

30th Jan 2012✧23:45

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1915 Midnight Frolic Ziegfeld Follies production, Pt 1, Scene 1, The Girls of New York Town. Most notable in this tableau of feminine beauty is Olive Thomas, seen as “Central Park” standing beside Oscar Shaw. The other Glorified American Girls from the Follies pictured are Margaret St. Clair as Broadway, May Leslie as Park Row, Gladys Slater as Riverside Drive, Dorothy Koffee as Washington Square, Ruby Lewis as the Bowery, Margaret Morris as Wall Street and Margorie Cassidy as Fifth Avenue. Costumes by Lucille. Taken by White Studios - large format hand printed photograph, never intended for public distribution.

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30th Oct 2011✧20:24

A Long Wait

In 1912, workmen digging a tunnel for New York’s new subway discovered a carpeted room decorated with oil paintings, chandeliers, and a grandfather clock. According to Tracy Fitzpatrick in Art and the Subway, it was the waiting room for an early prototype subway built in 1870 — a block-long tunnel in which a single car was pushed by a giant fan. Funding had failed, and the project had been forgotten.

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18th Oct 2011✧12:53

sisterwolf:

Joel Meyerowitz

21st Aug 2011✧22:4452 notes

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19th Aug 2011✧20:30

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19th Aug 2011✧20:25

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(via At Glass Candy – Greenpoint, Brooklyn « Mr. Newton)

(via Katie Shillingford, NYC | Street Peeper | Global Street Fashion and Street Style)

25th Jul 2011✧01:39

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prolidepp:

Coney Island at night 1904

21st Jul 2011✧15:577,240 notes

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missdandy:

Eva Marie Saint, 1954
Absolutely stunning here.

21st Jul 2011✧15:051,090 notes

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espop:

Seventh Avenue at Night. Tavik František Šimon.

12th Jul 2011✧23:45984 notes

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The Quiet American, 1958
Pete Turner

5th Dec 2010✧14:02

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Madison Avenue, 1958
Beautiful.

27th Nov 2010✧00:35

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Opaque by andbamnan

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