Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.
The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database.
Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.
— dailymail.co.uk
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is it just cause they are in black and white that I find those early photos amazing?,.,,,
I think the gritty nature of old school NY is amazing. Now the city is a sterile playground for the rich.
That last photo, the color one, makes me want to read The Basketball Diaries again.
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