1920s new york

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s. Then: Battery Park (1922) Now Then: Lower Manhattan No...

1920's - NYC, Lower East Side

Old modern

East Houston Street in Manhattan, New York City, in the 1920s. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Houston_Street_1920s.jpg

Tavik František Šimon, Seventh Avenue at Night, New York; 1920s

Lower east side NY apartments c.1920s/30s

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I found this photo in my bookcase some months ago, but tehre is no date on it!

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N.Y. 1920s