New york vintage

Here's a collection of amazing color photographs of New York City's street scenes in the 1970s (via ozmerry)

I was a teenager in Texas during all of it, so I missed out on the New York City of the 1970s. It was a very different place than where I live today. The Bowery , now lined with million dollar apartments, lived up to it’s infamous name by hosting much of the city’s illi

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Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

These brilliant photos were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi and scanned by his son Michael. They travelled to NYC as a stopover on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. Hans was using a Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera, using Agfa CT18 film. These photos are courtesy of Hans Joachim Jacobi’s … Continue reading "New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971"

No collection of Anderson Design Group posters on New York City would be complete without a vintage print that is properly styled in a distressed, worn fashion, an illustration of the Statue of Liberty in all her historic regality. This hand-illustrated vintage travel poster was fashioned after the WPA commissioned artwork of the mid-20th century, a striking salute to the rich history of America’s largest city. You can order this stylish retro art as a framed pint, canvas banner, metal sign…

Over three decades after they were taken, Tria Giovan shares her photographs of the Lower East Side, one of the city’s most unique neighbourhoods

See how Times Square transformed from seedy to safe during the 1990s in these vintage photos.

From NYC in the Sixties by Klaus Lehnartz (1978)