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The 1930s were a time of breadlines and Hoovervilles (homeless encampments); there was even a shanty town in Central Park for a few years, in the former Lower Reservoir of the city water supply system. As New York is struggling through a new financial crisis, take a look back at the city as it developed during the Great Depression.
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this city used to have class
THis was back when new york was "real" and "gritty" not like today.
Man I wish I could go back to the three-oh
That is the city my father was a child in. He used to shine shoes in front of Katz's Deli.
Beautiful Pictures... thx Gotham!
Now we live in "fake" classless New York. What that means, I don't know.
The city is starting to look sepia again.
Great pictures. From that picture of c-town, it appears that men were required to wear hats...
great photos, but i don't see the great depression in them. also, i wish the city still had streetcars.
Awesome pictures-- thank you!
Yeah, people call it classy just because it was a different age.
People want to look back at the 30's (or several other eras), look at the graphics on signs, architecture, the old cars, and the fedoras, and call it classy. That's all a nostalgic perception of a long gone age...But I'm sure there were sewage problems, camps of impoverished people (as gothamist says), trash everywhere, racism, etc...And I don't think those things equal classy.
I'm sure that in 50 years people will look back at the 2000 NYC as some sort of classy New York utopia.
amazing town. I see king kong in the background
nice shots. thanks for posting.
If you could go back in time to see how it was back then, you wouldn't want to really live there... I would buy some real estate, but other than that, no thank you...
didn't people used to throw garbage out their windows back then? that's the reason why woman walked near the curb as to not get hit by garbage.
by "people" I don't mean what's referred to as those people nowadays. I think they called them the "n" word back then.
so that's what were headed for? that looks quaint, bring on the crash!
PS will the pitbulls all have a ring around one eye and only bite the cops and lanldords?
My man in pic #6... has a serious pair.
There's a really good website for all types of olde timey pictures. Here is a link to the New York section.
http://www.old-picture.com/new-york-index-001.htm
Man, I love old new york! Great pictures!
I hope that straatis has permission to post those or that they're in the public domain. There might be some disgruntled people out there.
matty: you are such a n00b. personally, I long for gay NY of the 1890's.
people don't realize that if you went back in time there would be no goddamn air conditioning! that's the deal breaker. I think I could live without internet but no air conditioning would kill me.
Especially love the first photo with all of those fresh Art Deco skyscrapers. The Chrysler building, the Daily Plan... er News building and all.... now that's architecture!
Hoovervilles, breadlines, massive unemployment. Good article to help get NY'ers psychologically ready to relive those days all over again.
Courtesy of GW Bush, whom most of you azzholes voted for not once but twice.
SUCK ON THAT NOW.
The economic crash was not Bush's fault (he did exacerbated with his idiocy though).
It was the Bankers and The Federal Reserve that are responsible for what's coming.
Bush was a puppet, the Presidential position is a puppet position for the Bankers.
Also, Future Taliban: not sure who you mean by "you azzholes" -- but it's really a stretch to New Yorkers for Bush. I don't have the stats for 2000 on hand, but the city voted 81% for Kerry in 2004 and has been a solidly Democratic city for a long time.
... hey, where did the photos go??
weird, now they are back.
Great photos!
Who doesn't love this stuff! Thanx Jen and a thousand more!
And babyhitler, there was air conditioning back then and for two+ decades before, but for most ordinary NYers, the only place to enjoy AC was at the movie palace. That's why movies got so big: it was the AC!
#21 Future Taliban, Sorry taliban boy but cult leader Obama is top dog now.
Welcome to Barack HUSSEIN Obama's Amerikka where the president is liberal and open minded but against gay marriage.
Wow - - and to think this guy holds the copyrights to all these phenomenal photos! Even Margaret Bourke-White's stuff!
This old New Yorker wishes to remind
you that most heating here was made by someone
shoveling coal into a furnace ,The East River
had slums amongst the city animal slaughter houses
and gas works now the fancy UN area.
Many apartments shared bathrooms,Some we lived
in did not have hot water,i.e."coldwater" flats.
The cop on the beat on your block was a self
employed worker,supreme court and jailer.
Neighborhoods were segregated by nationality
and race until the idea of public housing projects
came about.
Yeah! we did all go to Central Park at night
to sleep when it was hot as it was safe.
A cheap thrill was walking to Times Square just
to see the lights.