RNCollins
TUG Lifetime Member
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- Jan 2, 2016
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- Tradewinds, Divi, Quarter House, Casa Ybel
Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930’s New York
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/nyregion/nyc-property-tax-photos.html
By James Barron / Interactive / The New York Times / nytimes.com / Dec 28, 2018
“In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots of everything from fashionable apartment buildings in Manhattan to [an] out-of-the-way diner on Staten Island.
The city recently had the images digitized....”
Macy’s Herald Square, 1313 Broadway, NYC, circa 1940
Photo source: NYC Municipal Archives Collections
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/nyregion/nyc-property-tax-photos.html
By James Barron / Interactive / The New York Times / nytimes.com / Dec 28, 2018
“In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots of everything from fashionable apartment buildings in Manhattan to [an] out-of-the-way diner on Staten Island.
The city recently had the images digitized....”
Macy’s Herald Square, 1313 Broadway, NYC, circa 1940
Photo source: NYC Municipal Archives Collections
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet
