1871-1886, Liberty Island, New York, New York, USA --- The photographer took this new look at the Statue of Liberty on it's 70th Birthday. Visitors may be seen leaning out from under the spiked crown. The people of France gave the Statue to the United States in 1884. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
30 Sep 1932, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Four construction workers take a nap, balanced on a steel girder hung 800 feet over Manhattan, during the construction of the Radio City Music Hall. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1941, New York, New York, USA --- Three models looking out the back window of a car; at left, wearing a small hat in white pique with a white feather with dark dots, by Russeks; center, wearing a small white Panama hat decorated with a black velvet band, jet ornament, and tulle veiling; at right, wearing a white straw hat with dark stripes, by Franklin Simon. --- Image by © Condй Nast Archive/CORBIS
26 Feb 1947, New York, New York, USA --- 02/26/1947-New York, NYmusic--the redhot variety --is the specialty at New York's Savoy Ballroom; and that kind of music makes for the red hot jitterbugging of harlemites. Dancers creat miniature cyclones as they jitter to hot jazz. Sometimes it quiets down and gets smoother. Ricky Babbit and Lucy Simms are smooth. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA --- Kindergarten students from the Bank Street School look at the New York City skyline from a ferry in New York Harbor. --- Image by © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS
ca. 1939, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Three Western Union messengers travel on a ferry from Liberty Island. The flag on the right is on a car used by President Roosevelt. --- Image by © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS
1961, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Audrey Hepburn in evening gloves and tiara in Blake Edwards' <Breakfast at Tiffany's.> --- Image by © John Springer Collection/CORBIS
ca. 1940s, New York, New York, USA --- Children Waving at Statue of Liberty --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1930s, Lower Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the USA from Germany aboard the S. S. <Nieuw Amsterdam>. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
21 Aug 1925, New York, New York, USA --- College Student Getting Practical Experience. New York: At the suggestion of Austin, Texas, is making good use of his summer vacation by learning with the sweat of his brow, how tons of steel become giant skyscrapers. He is an iron worker on the new 15 story physics building for Columbia University, which is in the course of construction. Besides not being afraid to balance himself atop the highest girders, the student iron worker is quite a boxer, fighting under the name of "Wary" Wade. The proceeds of the fight going towards paying his way through college. Photo shows Wade on he job as an iron worker. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1929-1931, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Dirigible establishing contact with Empire State Building tower. While designed for this purpose, it did not prove practical. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
08 Dec 1955, New York, New York, USA --- The famed Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, this year a Norway spruce 65 feet high, lights up the plaza and the skating rink as the switch is thrown, December 8th, on some 2,500 bulbs and 1,400 globes: red, white, blue and yellow. This was the 23rd consecutive year for the spectacular display in the heart of New York. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
16 Feb 1958, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Youngsters frolicking through the snow in Central Park as New York's skyscrapers in the background form this picture postcard setting during today's snowstorm. The East Coast from Northern Virginia to Boston is cowering under the winter's worst snowstorm, lashed out of the skies with stinging 35MPH winds. The blizzard is expected to leave New York in the afternoon with an accumulation of 8 to 10 inches in its wake. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1927, New York, New York, USA --- This photo shows a Negro traffic cop on 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
19 Apr 1933, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- A Roller Skater? Here's Your Costume. Are you a devotee of the new roller skating fad now popular among members of the smart set? Then here are the costumes you should wear according to the dictates of Dame Fashion. Miss Theresa Townsend (left) and Miss Joan Hamilton are wearing the jersey "sylo-jamas" in red, white and blue during a period of skating on the roof of Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The Empire State building is in the background. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1944, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- <Whelan's> by Brett Weston --- Image by © The Brett Weston Archive/CORBIS
1945, New York, New York, USA --- Stairway With Broom, Manhattan, 1945 --- Image by © The Brett Weston Archive/CORBIS
ca. 1944, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Antique Store Front, Manhattan, 1944 --- Image by © The Brett Weston Archive/CORBIS
30 Oct 1912, Ellis Island, New York, USA --- Immigrants stand outside at Ellis Island, looking torwards Manhattan and New York Bay, while they wait to be transferred and become residents of the United States. October 30, 1912. --- Image by © CORBIS
1949, New York, New York, USA --- A model poses as a stylish bride departing for her honeymoon in a blue Irish linen traveling suit. --- Image by © Genevieve Naylor/CORBIS
ca. 1900, Central Park, New York, New York, USA --- Children sledding on a snow covered path in Central Park, New York City, ca. 1900. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1950, New York, New York, USA --- Evelyn Tripp models a Sheila Lynn dress and scarf near the United Nations building in New York City. 1950. --- Image by © Genevieve Naylor/CORBIS
ca. 1930s --- Atop the Whitehall building in New York, world Champion trick shot golfer Jack Redmond demonstrates his golfing skill by teeing off from Miss Muriel Greer's forehead. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
10 Jun 1930, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Far above downtown Manhattan, a man holds onto a girder and waves from the construction site of the Empire State Building. June 10, 1930. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
15 Aug 1965, Queens, New York City, New York, USA --- Beatles fans scream at the top of their lungs during a concert at Shea Stadium. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1972, Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Model Naomi Sims choosing a song from the jukebox at Harlem's Lucky Spot Restaurant, wearing a long belted dress by Halston. --- Image by © Condй Nast Archive/CORBIS
ca. 1938, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Two models on 42nd Street, New York City at night, wearing (from the left): a bolero, slim dress and a straw 'Breton' hat with chin band; a long, double-breasted, pinstriped suit jacket and sailor hat. --- Image by © Condй Nast Archive/CORBIS
1975, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Comedian John Belushi, in a bumble bee costume, skates at the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink for a skit on Saturday Night Live. --- Image by © Owen Franken/CORBIS
1903-1913, Midtown, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- New York, NY: Interior view of New York's Grand Central Station. Crowds gather at the ticket booths, as sunlight streams in through the high windows. Undated photograph. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
13 Aug 1965, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- 8/13/1965-New York, NY- New York City policemen try to restrain hordes of teenagers- mostly of the female variety -from crashing into the Warwick Hotel, the Beatles' New York residence, August 12. The Beatles appear at Shea Stadium August 15, their only New York concert on their current U.S. tour. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1920s-1940s, Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- The night spot that best evokes glittering images of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s is the Cotton Club. While literary urbanites appreciated Harlem Renaissance writers like Langston Hughes, more fun-loving New Yorkers were attracted to the neighborhood's vibrant cabarets. If you were white and well-heeled, you could enjoy African American entertainers like Louis Armstrong and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson at the elegant Cotton Club. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
ca. 1925-1934, Bronx, New York, New York, USA --- Date filed 8/6/1961-New York, NY- Full length shot shows Babe Ruth about to hit a baseball, looking up. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
20 May 1962, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Actress Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, for his upcoming 45th birthday. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1953, New York, New York, USA --- Georgia Hamilton poses in a white chiffon formal for Harper's Bazaar Magazine. New York City, 1950. --- Image by © Genevieve Naylor/CORBIS
27 Jan 1961, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Jan Murray (L) sits alongside Rat Pack members Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra as the group unwinds backstage at Carnegie Hall after entertaining at a benefit performance in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1960, New York, New York, USA --- Stylish couple kissing in the back seat of a car. --- Image by © Jerry Schatzberg/Corbis
31 Aug 1954, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA --- A passerby holds on to a tree for support as hurricane swept waves hammer the sea wall adjacent to the Belt Parkway near 72nd Street in Brooklyn. The New York area and the New Jersey coastline were battered by Hurricane Carol as heavy rains and fierce winds disrupted power lines, felled trees and tangled air and highway traffic. The eye of the hurricane, which originated in the Caribbean, passed the Hamptons on Long Island. An estimated 175,000 persons were left without light and telephone service and thousands of persons evacuated summer bungalows along the southern shore. Gusts of 60 mph were reported in New York City, and 48,000 homes were without electricity. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1940, New York, New York, USA --- At Miss Cook's School of Manners, women demonstrate how to walk with a proper posture by carrying books on their heads. --- Image by © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS
1939 --- <Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building> by Lewis Hine --- Image by © Christie's Images/CORBIS
29 Sep 1930, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- A steel worker hangs stories above the streets of Manhattan while holding onto the end of a crane hook at the construction site of the Empire State Building. The Chrysler Building is viewable in the distance. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1935, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA --- Two unidentified people sitting under an umbrella on the boardwalk, at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York City. --- Image by © Condй Nast Archive/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- Changing his original plans of not leaving the Belgenland, until the liner arrived in California, where he will spend the winter months, continuing his renewed renovations of modern science, Professor Albert Einstein, Left the vessil when it docked in New York, for a four day stay. he is shown above on arrival. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1941, New York, New York, USA --- Schoolboy Drinking Milk --- Image by © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS
21 Mar 1956, New York, New York, USA --- 3/21/1956-New York, NY: Mockup of tomorrrow's jet comfort: Gracing the luxurious mockup of the Boeing Jet Stratoliner, which will enter service with airlines of the world in 1959, are a group of airline stewardesses. The half-million dollar mockup is the first such jet transport interior to be completed in America and was unveiled on the eigth floor of a Manhattan building. It seats 98 passengers, has airconditioning, lighting system, running water, ovens, and refrigerators. Each seat has individual air inlets, reading lights, stewardess call butons and emergency outlets for each passenger. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
08 Jun 1956, Queens, New York, USA --- It's bottoms up as an inquisitive toddler investigates the interesting manner in which the cans of soup are stored on the modern supermarket shelves. Mama came along in a minute and restored order to the upset cans and confined the baby to her grocery cart. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Mohawk Men Building a Skyscraper --- Image by © CORBIS
15 Feb 1959, Bronx, New York, New York, USA --- Elementary school division's 4th annual cheerleading contest. Fordham University's gymnasium, Bronx. Cheerleaders from St. Jude parish C.Y.O. of Manhattan, are shown dressed as Indians displaying their champion form routine which resulted in the winning of cheerleading contest among the elementary school division. The other tow divisions are: parish teenage division and Catholic girl high school division. The girls from St. Jude's parish C.Y.O. are mostly 6th, 7th, & 8th graders.. All of them don't attend St. Jude's parochial school, but come fro all parts of New York. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
24 Feb 1955, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Looking for a Showcase Mannequin????? Manhattan, New York, New York: The "innards" of one of the New York's famous landmarks will go under the gavel the week of March 7-16 when all furnishings and miscellaneous articles, including these showcase dummies, remaining in the John Wanamaker store on Eighth Street are sold at auction. Auctioneer O. Rundle Gilbert is shown looking over some of the 150 mannequins which will be auctioned off. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
09 Aug 1932, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Workmen walking along the newly placed RCA Building. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1929-1931, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Empire State Building Under Construction --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- View of The Holland tunnel Entrance Before a Holiday --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
25 Aug 1962, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- New York: Construction worker walking along a steel girder on the Pan Am construction site with Chrysler Building in the background. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
October 1930, Midtown, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- New York City: Sign Painter at work high over 42nd Street. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
30 Sep 1947, Bronx, New York, New York, USA --- 9/30/1947-New York, NY: Yankee and Dodger fans are jamming the Yankee Stadium today for the opening of the World Series, to root for their teams. To W.M. Barrett, the Big Diamond Jubilee is strictly a business opportunity. He expects to do a booming trade selling Yankee souvenir programs. Bleachers were filled to teh bursting point at 10 A.M., hours before the game. BPA2# 3589. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
17 Feb 1947, New York, New York, USA --- Members of the US Board of Tea Experts meet to taste teas. Left to right around the tasting table are J. Grayson Luttrell of Baltimore, Robert A. Lewis of Boston, George F. Mitchell of New York, Walter Hellyer of Chicago, Paul Ahrens of San Francisco, and William Harrington of New York and tea examiner. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
01 Mar 1953, New York, New York, USA --- The Giardina family watches daughter Susana with President Eisenhower on a television fundraiser for the American Red Cross --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- Children of Public School #38, Clark and Dominick Streets, are ardent lovers of apples, and they eat their apples "publicly" to inform us that National Apple Week is due next week. They are, left to right: Beatrice Petrizzo, Rocco Laietto, Thelma Cordani, Lena D. Alesante. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
05 Jun 1956, Queens, New York, New York, USA --- She was pretty well tuckered out after a flight from the West Coast, but Marilyn Monroe puckered up like this on her arrival at Idlewild Airport. She celebrated her thirtieth birthday on the previous day. On her reported romance with playwright Arthur Miller, La Monroe would say nothing. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
17 Oct 1952, New York, New York, USA --- Picture of a boy in seventh heaven. This blond youngster is about to make a feast of one of Jahn's most popular dishes. It's called "Tall in the Saddle," which is presumably the way one feels after finishing it. Jahn's dates back to 1897 and no effort is spared to create concoctions that delight the eye and the palate and tickle the imagination. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
04 Oct 1939, Bronx, New York, New York, USA --- General view of Yankee Stadium, New York, showing part of packed grandstands and playing field, as New York edged Cincinnati, 2-1, in opening game of the 1939 World Series. An estimated 60,000 packed the Stadium. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- Putting up New York's "tallest" calls for both brawn and nerve. This photo shows a worker fastening steel cable to hold a derrick in place prior to lifting steel girders and other steel parts at the top of the skyscraper. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
Times Square, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Times Square in the Rain and at Night --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
02 Aug 1926, Times Square, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Construction of the Paramount Building on Broadway in Times Square. Steel workers perched on steel beam during their lunch break. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Port Authority Bus Terminal view showing main motorstairs at height of morning rush hour. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
ca. 1900s, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA --- Sunshine and cloudless skies lured hundreds of visitors to Coney Island, on last Sunday, April 24, 1938. Many were seen promenading on the boardwalk, but none took a chance on entering the yet chilly waters. Here is a view of the Wonder Wheel, with the Virginia Reel in the foreground, this being one of the main attractions to be found at the famed Island. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
06 Dec 1957, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- 12/6/1957-New York, New York- Majestic apartment houses and hotels along New Yorks City's Fifth Avenue glow like christmas trees while Central Park wears her first winter coat. A contrasting rustic touch as provided by this graceful bridge over the glass like lake. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1982-1986, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Foyer of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center --- Image by © G.E. Kidder Smith/CORBIS
Fifth Avenue in New York, historical view --- Image by © Wolff & Tritschler/zefa/Corbis
New York, New York, USA --- New York, NY- Lina Basquett, well known dancer and musical comedy star, rehearsing new steps for a coming production on a ledge of the roof of the Hotel Commodore twenty eight stories belos is 42nd Street, whose hurrying throngs are unaware of the dancer balanced far above their heads. Undated photograph. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
25 May 1983, New York, New York, USA --- 5/25/1983-New York, New York- Plumes of bright fireworks displays a glow over the twin towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, in the gala nocturnal salute to the century-old span. Glittering lights from lower Manhattan skyscrapers are visable in the background. BPA2# 1963. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
