#vintage NYC

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A Bronx-bound #6 train shows off its snazzy new sealed beams as it barrels along under Manhattan in November 1957. The updated headlights, which could be seen from up to 1,500 feet, were installed as a warning system—part of the city’s attempt to mitigate the number of maintenance workers killed each year when they were caught unawares by an approaching train. But the City Transit Authority (the M.T.A. wouldn’t take over until 1968) soon found that the shiny new features offered an added benefit. “The long beams also save platform standees the trouble of craning to see if a train is approaching,” the NY Times reported. “The authority was pleased with the collateral effect of restraining people from leaning perilously from platforms to peer into the gloom of the tunnels.”

Photo: Arthur Brower for the NY Times via Times Instagram

[academic-vampire]

𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔶 𝔠𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 🌧️🏙️☕️🚕

[earthangeal]

A mural of a forest in the South Bronx, New York. Captured by Thomas Hoepker, 1983

Mural Art by Alan Sonfist, 1978. The building still exists, however the mural is no longer there

[femmemonologue]

i have a new celebrity crush ;; not important you can keep scrolling

[citizenscreen]

Geraldine Page and James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock while in a NYC bar in 1955. The two became friends after appearing together in Broadway’s “The Immoralist”.

[cassette-amateur]

_1980

[11oh1]

[carolynbkennedy]

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

[mrskennedy]

Jacqueline Onassis attends a meeting at Grand Central Station aimed at fighting against its demolition. She became one of the most prominent New Yorkers who organized to save Grand Central. January 31st, 1975.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rita Hayworth and her then-husband, Orson Welles, at the Stork Club, November 19, 1943. The film stars were expected to go overseas on a USO tour shortly thereafter.

Photo: Associated Press

[academic-vampire]

𝕷𝖊𝖙’𝖘 𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖈𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖐 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖆 𝖋𝖊𝖜 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘. 🍁🍂

[voca1ion]

Some of the best and oldest color photography i’ve seen of New York City c1939 thanks to Macy’s color view postcard series.

[oldnewyorkpictures]

[skf-fineart]

Mousey’s Bar on Avenue C and 13th Street, NYC (1976)

[citizenscreen]

Before he was a filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick was a staff photographer for LOOK Magazine. His first extended assignment (1947) was “Life and Love on the New York Subway.” Here are a few of his shots.

[milikkashad]

Chaka Khan, Live in New York City. 1979.