Old New York City photos

SCLaxAttack · Post by **SCLaxAttack** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:09 am

I could have sworn someone had started a thread re: this, but I couldn’t find it.

I’m guessing many will find this interesting. Turns out the NYC Dept. of Taxation photographed every property in the five boroughs between 1939 and 1941, and somebody cross referenced the photos by address and put it on a web site!

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/fi ... 1598628068

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:33 am

Yes we did have one in LP and I thought we brought it here but I also couldn't find it. I distinctly remember posting pics of the Gowanus Canal, the Puck Building, and of Horn & Hardart.

Remember this pic of me in an earlier life:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pFgJw5akxzQ/hqdefault.jpg

One of my all time fave pics!

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:02 pm

The Gemini Lounge Club in Canarsie:

Home of a nefarious group well noted for following the example of their predecessors in Murder, Inc in nearby Brownsville.

same place today:

just a little history on that Lounge:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gemini+ ... e&ie=UTF-8

and some notes on Roy DeMeo:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31328147/daily-news/

https://preview.redd.it/nurc6w74k3z31.j ... b14bd6c61e
https://live.staticflickr.com/2884/9320 ... 15b4_b.jpg

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Wed Sep 30, 2020 12:43 am

NYC definitely needs more trolleys:

there had been talk of creating a new trolley line from Brooklyn to Queens but all such talk seems to have disappeared recently - such a shame as it was badly needed

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:24 am

Brooklyn Bridge Trolleys:

Oh to have a TARDIS!

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:23 am

The original NY Mets:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... litans.jpg

Here's more on the Mets:

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/ ... -team.html

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:43 pm

Willie Mays plays stickball on the streets of Harlem, NYC:

https://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/sp ... 6_466a.jpg

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:39 am

really cool video of Manhattan in the 1930s:

makes you feel as if you're there

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Sat May 08, 2021 9:51 pm

girl crosses Brooklyn Bridge:

https://untappedcities-wpengine.netdna- ... York-3.jpg

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Sat May 08, 2021 9:56 pm

I think that's me in an earlier life reading the newspaper:

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/RaG ... LCFNRM.jpg

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Sun May 09, 2021 9:04 pm

I believe this is just below the old Fulton line in God's country back in the day:

https://media.timeout.com/images/100689861/image.jpg

Oh to have a working TARDIS!

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Sun May 09, 2021 9:31 pm

https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/u ... 40s-16.jpg

NYC, 1947: 2 lamb chops & beans platter = 40¢

the caption indicates people were all riled up over the post war inflation these costs represent

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Mon May 10, 2021 11:33 pm

kids play on the streets of the Bowery:

https://live.staticflickr.com/4060/4664 ... de996e.jpg

Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Mon May 10, 2021 11:51 pm

Peck Slip in the South Street area:

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/wp-co ... /04/37.jpg

For many years it was the only place a young man could find a job - or get Shanghaied:

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2012/ ... uring.html

It’s impossible to know exactly how many men were forced onto boats along New York’s port, as the victims were frequently drunk, thrown onto boats that embarked on long voyages and then failed to press charges when they returned. An article in 1910 claims that ‘[h]undreds of sailors were captured [in New York Harbor], usually in the saloons, beaten into insensibility, to awake when the ship was at sea and the Captain an absolute tyrant.”

There would be an actual, near legal version of shanghaiing called crimping where the sailors, still taken at will, would be forced to sign an agreement, paid for their services but not allowed to leave. They would embark on often long voyages, and by the time they got back, “his anger is likely to have died out.”

... or possibly have gone through some matelotage ceremony or inversion ritual that made him see things differently (if you know what I mean).