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oldnewyork · 2 days

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Streit's Matzo Factory, Lower East Side, c. early 1960s

#1960s #old new york #jewish #lower east side #manhattan #vintage new york

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newyorkthegoldenage · 19 hours

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Sunshine and cloudless skies lured hundreds of visitors to Coney Island on Sunday, April 24, 1938. Many were seen promenading on the boardwalk, but some ventured on the rides in Steeplechase Park.

Photo: George Rinhart via Corbis/Getty Images/Ranker

#vintage New York #1930s #George Rinhart #Coney Island #vintage Coney Island #April 24 #24 April #Steeplechase Park

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semioticapocalypse · 5 months

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Diane Arbus. Woman at a counter smoking, NYC. 1962

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

#MM #1950s #marilyn monroe #vintage new york #marilyn #monroe #new york #cecil beaton #black and white photography #portrait photography #muse #style icon #fashion icon #old hollywood #vogue #movie stars #classic cinema

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carolynbkennedy · 6 months

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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

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mrskennedy · 19 days

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Jackie Kennedy and Rudolf Nureyev strolling through New York City. 1967.

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citizenscreen · 4 months

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Man at the Automat at 977 Eighth Avenue in NYC, late 1930s. Photo by Berenice Abbott

#vintage new york

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popping-your-culture · 2 months

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#vintage new york #new york city #back in the day #goddess #legs and heels #legs for miles #smoke show #legs for days #legs and pantyhose #smoking hot #vintage fashion #vintage photos #midtown #yellow cab

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oldnewyork · 1 day

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Zero Mostel & cast, Fiddler on the Roof, 1964 (Broadway)

#1960s #old new york #vintage new york #fiddler on the roof #zero mostel #broadway

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newyorkthegoldenage · 20 hours

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Lovers meet where they can, 1942.

Edit: A couple of people wrote that they thought this was a mother and daughter, and now I see the older woman’s skirt! I’d looked only at her head and upper body and thought she looked like a man. But I suppose they could have been lovers anyway. 😀

Photo: Helen Levitt via the Museum of Contemporary Art

#vintage New York #1940s #Helen Levitt #lovers #couple #urban love #vintage NYC

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semioticapocalypse · 3 months

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Angelo Rizutto. When day is done in Brooklyn (boys in advertisement-covered subway car filled with passengers). June 25, 1949

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton in his suite at the Ambassador Hotel. New York, 1956. Photograph by Edward Pfizenmaier.

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carolynbkennedy · 5 months

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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

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newyorkthegoldenage · 20 hours

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Lee Moates and Tonita Malau show their winning dance style during a Lindy contest on the block-long floor of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom on April 24, 1953.

Photo: Hans Von Nolde for the Associated Press via the Deseret News

#vintage New York #1950s #Hans von Nolde #Lindy #dancing #dancers #April 24 #24 April #Savoy Ballroom #vintage Harlem #dance halls #vintage dance halls #Lee Moates #Tonita Malau #dance contest

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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 days

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Life in the tenements, 1937.

Photo: Arnold Eagle via Christie's

#vintage New York #1930s #Arnold Eagle #tenements #slums #b&w photography #laundry drying #clotheslines #neighbors

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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 days

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George Copeland Ault, Morning in Brooklyn, 1929. Oil on canvas.

Photo: Invaluable Auctions

#vintage New York #1920s #Morning in Brooklyn #George Copeland Ault #painting #realism #vintage Brooklyn #precisionism

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