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Jacob A. Riis - Sweatshop in Hester Street, 1889/1946

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Accra Shepp. Occupying Wall Street, 2011.

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Accra Shepp. Flushing Creek, Looking towards Shea Stadium and Citifield, 2008.

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Tod Papageorge. Central Park (Couple in Grass), 1987.

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Helen Levitt. 'N. Y.' (Children Playing), 1938.

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Charles Pratt. View of Jamaica Avenue showing people walking on the sidewalk and cars stopped in a traffic jam under an elevated subway line, 1967.

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Charles Pratt. Partial view of two shop façades showing windows, two ornamented columns and the shadow of a fire escape, New York City, New York, 1957.

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Charles Pratt. Aerial view of the West Side highway showing a truck, New York City, New York, 1962.

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Nat Fein. Babe Ruth's Last Day at Yankee Stadium, 1948.

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Morris Engel. Photo Booth, Coney Island (Fred Wagner - Shoeshine boy), 1947.

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Sid Grossman. Lower Harlem, c. 1939.

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Fred Zinnemann. 131 Wall St. Church, New York, Nov. 31, 1931.

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I am lucky.  As I am approaching the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a VERY cold day, I see a wonderful couple leaving the museum.  Turns out, it is Rebecca Lepkoff, 96, and her husband, Gene, 94.  Rebecca Lepkoff is a brilliant street photographer who has been documenting New York City since the 1930’s.  She is associated with the Photo League era and has a book called ‘Life on the Lower East SIde, 1937-1950’. A pioneer woman photographer. Her website is www.rebeccalepkoff.com.  Rebecca and Gene have just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Gene has a very wry style and says to me as I am about to depart, “ Someday I will be gentrified.”.  

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Rebecca Lepkoff. Under the 3rd Avenue 'El', c. 1947.

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Louis Stettner. Penn Station, NYC, 1958.

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David Bruce Cratsley. Block of ice 3 a.m. 28th and Lexington Ave., New York, 1977.

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Pullis, Granville W. Times Sq. Sta., 1910.