1936-1951' captures daily life of adults and children in New York City Children are seen playing, sailors walking through Times Square and lightning flying across the Empire State Building ...
By the late 1940s, New York had become the world's largest manufacturing center, with 40,000 factories and over a million factory workers. It was the nation's largest wholesaling center ...
The New York Transit Museum archives have this vintage video produced by the NY Transportation Board in 1949 about the New York City subway system. At the time, the fare was $0.10 - and the ...