Old-school New York:

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[h=1]Old-school New York: Stunning black-and-white photographs show the gritty reality of daily life in 1940s Manhattan[/h]

• Rarely-seen photographs of an innocent-looking New York show the slick metropolis in much simpler times
• Bygone era perfectly captured in the colourless images, which highlight how much Manhattan has changed
• One shows a Christmas Eve shopper lugging a traditional rocking horse outside Macy's Department Store
• Another encapsulates the assimilation of Germans and Italians, whose families moved there in the 1850s

 

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Annual event: Huge crowds gathering at midnight in Times Square for the ball dropping on New Year's Eve, 1941

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Celebrations: Soldiers stand rigidly at attention in their vehicles, which carry 8-inch Howitzers, during the Victory Parade of the 82nd Airborne Division on Fifth Avenue on January 12, 1946

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Workmen prepare to lower one of the 100-pound metal cornices from the Hotel Ansonia in New York, September 22, 1942. The hotel began scrapping thousands of pounds of ornamental metal work to help in the war effort

 

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World-famous skyline: The Third Avenue railway line winds its way through lower Manhattan, February 12, 1946

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Shouldn't that be a big apple? A handsome pedestrian stops to enjoys a hot ear of corn from a street vendor on July 14, 1947

 

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Christmas Eve 1946: A father tries to hail a cab outside Macy's department store while carrying a crated rocking horse

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Festive: Passengers scurry to buses at 49th Street & Fifth Avenue as snow falls to a depth of 10.5 inches on December 26, 1947

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Cool: This view from atop the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 59th St. and Fifth Ave shows ice skaters in Central Park on January 9, 1944

 

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Multi-cultured: An Italian spaghetti house and German health food store sit next to each other on 86th St. in January 22, 1942

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Family fun: This Steeplechase Pier shot shows part of the crowded beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn on August 28, 1948

 

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Dramatic: Smoke from a massive fire pours out of Pier 57 on the Hudson River at 15th Street in New York, September 29, 1947. The blaze swept the structure for more than 16 hours causing most of it to collapse into the river

 

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Good sport: Charles Dunne swings at a ball during a practice session of a P.A.L. team in Brooklyn, June 9, 1943

 

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Stoat, Seattle, United States, 17 hours ago
Nice photos from a far better time in NYC, when Patriotism wasn't a dirty word and the people would have laughed anti-Americans like DeBlasio, Clinton, Dinkins and Obama off the public stage instead of enthusiastically electing such trash to public office. BTW DM, there's a whole lot more to America than NYC...that one city doesn't represent us in any way anymore.