A corner on west Canal St. (1942)
Chinese store windows, New York (1942)
Collecting the salvage on Lower East Side (1942)
Corner of Pearl St. (1942)
Crowd gathers during Salvage collection in Lower East Side (1942)
East 7th St between 3rd & 2nd St. (1942)
Hot sweet potatoes cart (1942)
Looking up a street of many races, lower Manhattan (1942)
Looking up Fulton St. from South St (1941)
Lower First Avenue (1942)
Old lady reads Sunday paper, Lower East Side (1942)
Poverty, young and old, black and white (1942)
Residents of lower Clinton St near East river, Saturday afternoon (1941)
Southeast corner of 1st St. and Bowery (1942)
Store fronts below brick tenement (1942)
Stores near corner of Broome St. and Baruch Place, Lower East Side (1941)
Street in New York's Chinatown (1942)
Sunday afternoon gossip (1942)
Up 4th Ave from Astor Place, Cooper Union on the right (1942)
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All images from the Charles Cushman Collection
This capsule was curated by JG Mango
Thank you to Business Insider
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Every picture tells a story don’t it!
doesn’t it*
More of these please. Would love to see the Village in the late 40′s early 50′s
I really find this entire collection incredible. Especially McSorley’s, just because I’ve been by there so many times, and the outside really looks the same as it does now!
Except for the cars and the ladies styles, it looks exactly how I remember it from the 60′s. I am struck by how much trash there is in the street.
@ Grammer Nazi — I believe Kathy’s comment was a reference to lyrics from the Rod Stewart song “Every Picture Tells a Story”.
p.s. I guess you aren’t the “Spelling Nazi” because you misspelled “Grammar”.
wonderful pics, I love it
These are fantastic… the NYC in which my parents (born in the early 1930s) grew up. The entire Charles Cushman collection is pretty incredible.
Indeed, I was referring to the song!
Even more fun: if there’s a street address, googling it to see what it looks like now (for those of us who are not natives.)
These pictures are exactly what my parents ran away from. They came to Allentown in 1931, from the lower East Side of N Y, to be in the “country”. It has been a very wise move, we love Allentown. (Even tho our children all made the decision to move away.)
Ferne
Beautiful photos.
The photograph that is labeled “Lower First Avenue 1942″
is indeed a photo of lower SECOND Ave, the NW corner-a corner
that was occupied from the 50s until recently by the La Salle Academy. The arched window to the right belongs to the courthouse
that is now Anthology Film Archives.
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I love how all the men are wearing hats (most of them). I love the clothes from the 1940s. Great photos. So simple but yet poignant. Thanks for sharing.
These pictures are fantastic! I just loved the NEW York, 1940′s….it gives such a view into the history and the way The City looked at that time. Thank you for this wonderful link.