New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Teresa Carpenter

NYPL Notes: Festive lights in curlicue designs arch over street, men with tall ladder, wagons, cars, billboards: “el” and Municipal Bldg. Just visible. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott  for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.