Manhattan, May 1969. ©Robert W. Rynerson

Photo: Stephen Harmon - late 1978 or 79. They're used to be so many of these "appetizing" stores in the city. This one was on W. 72nd street.

6th Ave in the village 1972 - © Rich Allen

"New York City" 1954 Elliot Erwitt

Construction of 946/948 Broadway, southeast corner of 23rd St and Broadway, across the street from the Flatiron Building. Photo by Klaus T. Moser-Maync, 1982

WWII East Coast Memorial and the Seamen's Church Institute. Battery Park, Manhattan, July 1983. ©Chris Robart

Times Square, 1958, found Kodachrome transparency, photographer unknown, personal/private collection of Jan Wein.

Photo: Stephen Harmon - someone in the group asked for this photo a few weeks ago, so here it is. This is on W. 72nd street around 1978.

Tiffany mansion, Madison Avenue and 72nd Street, undated photo: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection: New York Historical Society

Merry Christmas, All. (Hiroji Kubota - Christmas Tree In Front Of The New York Stock Exchange, NYC, 1988.)

1984. 174 1st Ave. btw 10th and 11th Streets. A pup outside entrance to Pete’s Spice. Michael Macioce, photog.

Klein and the former Irving Place Theatre (south side of 15th St between Irving Pl and Park Ave South) mid-demolition, 1984. Photo by Klaus T. Moser-Maync

"42nd Street looking west from Park Avenue, showing Grand Central Station, New York City; copy negative of a circa 1880 photograph by an unknown photographer" From the H.N. Tiemann & Co. photograph collection Before it was Grand Central Terminal?

Photo: Stephen Harmon - The old townhouses on a Riverside Drive street with a "modern" building in the background.

46-48 East 14th Street, May 21, 1916 photo: NYC Board of Transportation, Bklyn-Manhattan Transit Co. collection: New York Historical Society

Manhattan, 42nd Street (1989). Photo by Petr Sedlecky.

Photo: Stephen Harmon - W. 73rd sometime in the 1980s.

Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor from a helicopter, Sept. 1978. ©Bent Christensen | flickr.com

Chambers Street between Church and West Broadway in 1975. The neighborhood was full of close-out or "schlock" shops. The former bank building is now the home of the D.C.37 union health center. Photograph ©1975-2023 Allan Tannenbaum

1965. Times Square. A couple at a kiosk with signs reading 'An Electronic Analysis of your Personality and Character, Automatic Data Processing Equipment by International Business Machines (IBM). Photo by Susan Schiff Faludi