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Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in
this photo dated July 29, 1908. The historical pictures released online for the
first time show New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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A bridge too far? Painters hang from suspended wires on the Brooklyn Bridge
October 7, 1914 -- 31 years after it first opened
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Moment in history: The headline of the newspaper the man in this May 18, 1940
photo reads: 'Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris.' This picture shows the corner
of Sixth Avenue and 40th Street in Manhattan
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The Third Avenue elevated train rumbles across lower Manhattan in this undated
photo. City Hall can be seen in the background
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In 1936, the Triborough Bridge, which links Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, was
not yet complete. The Hells Gate Railroad Bridge looms in the
distance
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Genesis of a icon: In this June 5, 1908 photo, the Manhattan Bridge is less than
a shell, seen from Washington Street. It wouldn't be opened for another 18
months and wouldn't be completed for another four years
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New Yorkers cool off in the Astoria public pool with the Hell Gate railroad
bridge looming in the background in the summer of 1940.
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The view from New Jersey: A man peers across the Hudson River into Manhattan
from his perch on the George Washington Bridge on December 22, 1936
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