1960's NYC In Black & White

[Radiohead]

Photos by Klaus Lehnartz

Times Square
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5th Avenue
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Park Avenue
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[Radiohead]

Garment District


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Rally for Nelson Rockefeller
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Tourist Shop Windows
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The bottom shirt reads Schlitz Breakfast of Champions. Classic.
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Sixth Avenue
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Columbia Univ
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Greenwich Village

Club Figaro
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Cafe Wha?
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St Marks Place
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[Radiohead]

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Accident at 7th Ave & 32nd Street
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The Bowery
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Pan Am Building
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Midtown from the Hudson
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn El/Broadway
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Harlem
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Bronx
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[ablarc]

In some ways it was a better city then.




(Could have used a bit less litter, though.)

[czsz]

Wow, I forgot the central Village was once cool (and not just a giant NYU dorm).

[courious]

There were no fat people!

[ablarc]

^ Curiously true.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Less processed/fast food.

No computers.

Real sports, not virtual games.

More an industrial economy.

Less stress?

[ablarc]

^ All the above. Plus sexual gymnastics.

[Radiohead]

Rather than start a new thread, I'll put these color pics of 1960's NYC right here. Not Cushman quality clear, but better interesting nonetheless.

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Timeless Meets Tacky
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UN Building
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Rockefeller Center
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Midtown
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Some of the old cabs were ugly, but graceful in their own way
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[Radiohead]

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[Radiohead]

Most are probably very early 60's; a few may even be late 50's. These are from a 1966 book I dug out of the attic. BTW, I do better job dating photos by cars than haircuts;)

[deezee]

thanks so much for posting these. i have that book by lehnartz as i collect old photography books that focus on nyc in the 50's and 60's. unfortunately, unlike punzie, i'm not too old to remember any of these. the city was definitely much dirtier...no comparison to what it's like today..but it also was a much better place to live. maybe it's just because i was a kid back then and that will always be true of any place you grew up.

mind if i post some other old pictures of the city back then on this thread? i can start a new one if you'd rather.

[Radiohead]

thanks so much for posting these. i have that book by lehnartz as i collect old photography books that focus on nyc in the 50's and 60's. unfortunately, unlike punzie, i'm not too old to remember any of these. the city was definitely much dirtier...no comparison to what it's like today..but it also was a much better place to live. maybe it's just because i was a kid back then and that will always be true of any place you grew up.

mind if i post some other old pictures of the city back then on this thread? i can start a new one if you'd rather.


Feel free. I don't own this thread, I just started it. All 60's NYC pics are welcome; the more the better.

[Radiohead]

Here's some of Cushman's later photos from what looks like the early 60's.

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[The Benniest]

Really cool pictures. I really like the brought back, far out pictures of the city skyline.

Thanks for sharing!
Ben

[macreator]

Wow, I forgot how defining 30 Rock used to be from the Hudson River. Manhattan seems so much narrower before all of the office space west of 6th Avenue was built up. You can even see 570 Lexington -- all the way over on Lexington Avenue -- in all its glory from the West side. What a different skyline.

[Radiohead]

The following are from 1962
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These are from 1958 & 59 (close enough for this thread, I guess)
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A1960's lower Manhattan concept model
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[brianac]

Thank you for taking the time, and having the patience to post all of these wonderful photographs. Particularly the last batch. They led me to the others which I would have missed because they were posted during my absence.

[Radiohead]

Damn, this thread has been vacant for a year....time flies. Here are some more b/w and color courtesy of Straatis/Flickr

1960 Washington Market
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1960 Brooklyn on a snowy night
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Chinatown
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The Village
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Tudor City
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165 Broadway, w/ Singer Building on left (demolished in 1968:-(
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More Singer
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Singer interior during demolition
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[Radiohead]

Hard Hat rally(from Gary Winogrand)
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Village Gate (herb Snitzer)
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Greenwich & Harrison (Victor Laredo)
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NYC is invaded
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Santas on Houston (Susan McCartney)
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Crowd at Warwick Hotel to see the Beatles
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Bob Dylan
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Children in Harlem Apt w/ Triboro Bridge in distance
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1968 (Garry Winogrand)
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Brooklyn at dusk 1968 (William Gedney)
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[Radiohead]

Brooklyn scene 1969 (William Gedney)
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SE corner of 7th Ave & 43rd St December 1969
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100th St view of roof tops
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1966 view from Beekman Hospital
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1965 Chinatown (Ed Ford)
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42nd St looking west (possibly a Cushman shot)
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1964 World's Fair
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World's Fair from expressway (Walter Reed)
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1967 Broad Street Lower Manhattan
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[Radiohead]

1967 Fifth Ave Hotdog stand (Richard Friedman)
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Great Human Be-In 1967
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1968 Fillmore East
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Mott St/Chinatown
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1960 Fifth Ave looking south from 42nd St
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Duffy Square 1967 (Al Lowe)
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Mets vs. Milwaukee Braves 1964 (opening year at Shea)
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FYI, this is all that's left...
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60's police car in the 00's. Sweet.
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[scumonkey]

WOW Radiohead...Thank YOU for bringing back the memories!
That worlds fair was my first visit to the states...
These Monsters are some of my fondest-If I remember correctly,
the mouth on the T-Rex slowly opened and closed-
and back then, that was a sight to behold!!
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[Radiohead]

I wasn't born yet, but I would loved to have visited the fair and the dinoaurs. Glad it brought back good memories for you SCU

Here are some 1967 shots from gbaku/Flickr

NYC during a rainstorm
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The Summer of Love, Village style
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[Radiohead]

1967 The big boxes were still a minority
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Note the big intruder towards the right
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From atop the Pan-Am
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Helicopter view
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NY Airways helicopter (for the JFK to Pan Am roof route)
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[Derek2k3]

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This view is so much better without HSBC.


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So this is what Southbridge Towers replaced. I should blow this up and bring it to the next CB1 meeting.

[Derek2k3]

Great photostream of New York's skyline throughout the years.
eralsoto (http://flickr.com/photos/8534413@N03/)


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I think the Midtown skyline is more attractive now than it's been in the past...of course taking a closer look at the individual buildings is another story.


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The towers of the 60's and 70's took the softness out of the skyline but I find them a a necessary evil.


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[lofter1]

Brick & Limestone rule.

All Glass = Dastardly Interloper.

[Soundbounder]

This is a great thread!!! Excellent photos.
Thanks for sharing them.

[Derek2k3]

Brick & Limestone rule.

All Glass = Dastardly Interloper.

I think that's a bit unfair. I think the worst post-war buildings in the city are brick.

The urban renewal projects and almost all post-war residential buildings up until the last few years are brick. Of course they are not as noticeable in the skyline as the taller glass office towers, but I think they have been even more damaging to the city's streetscape.

Bottom line architecture is the problem- not style.
If modern buildings could be built under the same conditions and budgets as the ones 20's, I have no doubt that they'd be just as amazing.

[lofter1]

Fairness really has nothing to do with it ;) -- it's just how I see it.

In my mind's eye the perfect version of NYC is mainly stone and brick -- but, of course, those must be well done and with lots of windows.

Add an amazing glass tower or nine -- scattered here & there, gathered in a cluster -- for variety.

Banal buildings at 30 + stories -- no matter the material -- are never welcome.

I'm just not a fan of all glass Hong Kong / Houston / Dubai style skylines. Call me old fashioned, but a skyline with all glass rising tall seems brash and without long-term-edness. On the other hand, lately London seems to be getting the mix just about right -- and she has the balls to build big + crazy with glass and steel. I like what i see there.

So maybe I'm not so old-fashioned after all :cool:

[Radiohead]

Lofter, I always thought you were an old fashioned conservative;)

I agree with your sentiments.

[lofter1]

I'm more of a new-fangled conservationist.

[Radiohead]

Village Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkC9ifSWys


Chevy in NY. True 60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sipDcdn3fY

As found at AM New York

[Derek2k3]

1964
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I guess Chase Manhattan doesn't use those pull down shades anymore.

[Agile]

Some amazing shots! Thanks for this thread. There's a village shot on Sullivan St. of the Children's Aid Society. It's where I used to go for my after school program.

Also, love the shot on Greenwich & Harrison with the kids walking. How raw it looked then. Now it's the site of the posh restaurant, The Harrison. The food is excellent, so I won't knock it.

[Merry]

1960s Brooklyn From Above

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We received these amazing old panoramic photos in our inbox yesterday (courtesy Forgotten-NY (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/)), taken by Patrick Cullinan in the '60s. The spot? Patrick writes: "In June of 1962, I went to the Williamsburg Bank Building and asked 'the guy' if I could go upstairs and take some pictures. He said OK. I think he escorted me. The whole thing was conducted in a relaxed atmosphere"... as opposed to today, when you have to sneak in (http://gothamist.com/2009/04/23/williamsburgh_savings_bank.php). Enjoy the nearly half century journey back in time!

http://gothamist.com/2010/04/05/60s_brooklyn.php?gallery0Pic=6#gallery


Brooklyn Views, A Half-Century Ago

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/1962-savings-bank-view-01b.jpg (http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/1962-savings-bank-view-01b.jpg)

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/1962-savings-bank-view-02.jpg (http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/1962-savings-bank-view-02.jpg)

These photos of the views from the top of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank landed in our Inbox over the weekend. Forwarded by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/), the photos (which you can click on to expand) were taken by Patrick Cullinan (http://pcullinan.smugmug.com/) in June 1962. The first photo looks north, with Brooklyn Tech and Fort Greene Park visible on the right and the Empire State building straight ahead. In the second one you can see Lafayette Avenue cutting east up the hill to the Masonic Temple. Pretty great!

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/04/brooklyn_views.php

[Agile]

Wow, beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing. I lived in Ft. Greene for 8 years. What a great neighborhood.

[mariab]

Hello guys. Do you still post on this site? I sent you messages to your inbox a few weeks ago regarding a photo that was posted. Not sure if you realize it. I'll check back again. Thanks.

[Millie]

When I searched for images of Brooklyn street scenes from 1969, I found the black and white image of a street and elevated train that was posted on your forum page. Who would I need to contact for permission to use this picture either for a website to promote a book or as the cover of the book itself? It is a novel set in Brooklyn in 1969, and it is called SEEING THINGS IN BROOKLYN.

[Millie]

I loved all the photos on your post. There was one in particular from your post of Jan. 31, 2009, in which I was interested-- Brooklyn Scene 1969 (William Gedner). Who would I need to contact for permission to use this photo either on a website to promote a book I wrote or as the cover of the book itself? It is a novel called SEEING THINGS IN BROOKLYN, which is set in 1969.

[lofter1]

Doing a Google search (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22William+Gedner%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) for "William Gedner" hardly anything popped up. There was THIS ONE (http://www.nytimes.com/1865/05/17/news/city-government-board-councilmen-petitions-resolutions-motions-reports-message.html?pagewanted=5), but it's from 1865 and lists Mr. Gedner as one on a list of "blind persons" who were to receive a donation from the City Comptroller.

There is, however, a photographer by the name of William GEDNEY (http://photo.box.sk/history.php3?id=16):


William Gedney moved to Brooklyn as a nineteen year-old to attend the Pratt Institute of Art. He graduated from Pratt in 1955, but continued to live in Brooklyn for more than twenty years, first in a cold-water flat on Myrtle Avenue and later, in 1974, moving to the basement apartment of a brownstone owned by his closest friends from art school, Arnold and Anita Lobel. New York was one of Gedney's favorite subjects, and over the years, he photographed parades, revivals, holiday shoppers, automobile shows, Washington Market, Times Square, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge. There was one particular bar in Brooklyn, O'Rourke's, that he visited, wrote about, and photographed often in the early 1960s. In 1969, William Gedney compiled two notebooks devoted exclusively to Myrtle Avenue, the street on which he lived. That year he also began a series of photographs from his apartment window, his view of the commerce of life under the elevated train. One of the last series Gedney undertook was to photograph the yearly parade commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots.

His collection is held at Duke University:

William Gedney Photographs and Writings (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/)

Seems this ^ might be the link you're looking for ...


From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From street scenes outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney recorded the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy ...

Copyright, Citation, and Reproduction Information

The materials included in the William Gedney Photographs and Writings Web site are provided by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library for the purposes of research, teaching, private study, or general interest. For these purposes the images and transcribed texts may be viewed and printed. (more (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/copyright.html) . . .)



Gedney shot tons of pics of Brooklyn, with a slew covering trains + subways (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/search/results?t=brooklyn+train).

[Millie]

Breathtaking photos, Radiolab! Have you ever published a book of them?

[Millie]

Thank you so much for this helpful information. You certainly did a lot of quick research!

[Radiohead]

Breathtaking photos, Radiolab! Have you ever published a book of them?

Millie, I think you're confusing this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcANFVcJeOM&feature=channel)with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TMoy6DNTO4). Easy mistake:)

Actually, most of these are public domain or photos taken by others. If I did publish a book of them, any and all profits would be used to pay lawyer and copyright infringement fees.

As mentioned in the '70's pic thread, Wavz13 over at Flickr has some good NYC pics (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/sets/72157622632536255/), including some some from the '60's.

1967
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/4084657196_a9e1a66b12_o.jpg

Below are 1967 pics of the area that was soon to be cleared to make way for the WTC

Washington & Chambers St
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2502/4083898627_7c91077260_o.jpg

Caroline St (near Jay & West St)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/4084658364_ede68759ba_o.jpg

West & Chambers St
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4084658394_0d75ee52d1_o.jpg

West & Warren St
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4084658420_e2d4abea1c_o.jpg

West St between Duane & Reed Sts
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/4084658466_d3739b2422_o.jpg

West St between Jay & Duane Sts
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3508/4083899357_e5edbd97ec_o.jpg


West St & WSH 1966
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2649/4083899395_0e2a761d2f_o.jpg

Construction on the WTC soon to begin
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/4084659144_f078603480_o.jpg

[brianac]

1097510974

Vivian Cherry's book "Helluva Town" of 1940's and 50's New York is still avaiable.

VIDEO OF VIVIAN CHERRY TALKING ABOUT HER NEW YORK PHOTOGRAHS (http://photography.bhinsights.com/content/vivian-cherrys-portrayal-nyc.html)

MORE ABOUT VIVIAN CHERRY (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2008/0326/p20s01-ussc.html)

[lofter1]

SHADOWS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_(1959_film)), an improvisation inspired film by John Cassavetes (1959), shown last night on TCM and available (http://www.amazon.com/John-Cassavetes-Influence-Criterion-Collection/dp/B0002JP2OS) in a restored version, has some terrific sequences shot around Times Square and Central Park. And this scene, shot in the MoMA sculpture garden:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4g-NtzwEE

[Fabrizio]

^ When people were cool in 1959, they were really cool.

[ablarc]

Shadows: the original indie movie.

[Merry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Vu4A07DVw&feature=player_embedded

[mariab]

Very cool, Merry. I wonder what ever became of the man sitting on the bench on the ped walkway on the Bklyn Brdg. Looked like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Also the elderly woman walking up the street uphill. Interesting window into what looks like early 60s NY.

[lofter1]

Amazing to see that as late as 1968 Broadway south of 8th Street was covered in belgian block. Lafayette Street, too. And cool to see Washington Square Park before the 70's make over (at a time shortly after traffic stopped passing through from north to south).

Not to mention there's not a tourist in sight.

[Radiohead]

Hunts Point Market Cocktail Bar, Bronx
ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5232926093_6724d195fa_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5232926093_6724d195fa_o.jpg

Neglected 1857 cast iron building at Broadway & Broome, 1966
ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5128/5232906669_5381b6d78d_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5128/5232906669_5381b6d78d_o.jpg

It thankfully survived the wrecking ball and is now landmarked. More on it here (http://www.osaarchivum.org/galeria/vir_ex/chicago_ny/sections/--06-/010.html).
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5084/5239836112_1452fb8d5d_o.jpg

We see a lot of photos of the NYC skyline from that period. How about some hi-res photos from inside a luxury 1960's high rise apartment. Here's the Kaiser residence from 1967 (courtesy of the LOC)
ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5005/5232904335_6dc6e2de26_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5005/5232904335_6dc6e2de26_o.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5232902093_9642aab34e_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5232902093_9642aab34e_o.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5233490690_781f98db8d_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5233490690_781f98db8d_o.jpg

[mariab]

Beautiful building. Glad they gave her a bath. The inside looked like a high-end groovy love den. Wonder if the water tower is still there.

[lofter1]

As much as I'd love to tell you otherwise, the interior seen above has no relation to the old cast iron building. That one is the grand Haughwout Building at 490 Broadway (Broome).

When I first moved down this way she was still that great old gnarly black, all peeling and decrepit, like something out of Dickens. Around 1990 she was given more than just a bath, she got a whole paint job. She's since been re-painted that tannish-beige color; she's now a much more appropriate grey (although a darker shade would be better). The water tower is still up top.

Here's how she looked about a year ago (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2009/12/29/restored_soho_gem_unwraps_itself_for_the_holidays. php), when the latest exterior restoration was nearly complete.

Up until a couple of months ago she still had one of the oldest elevators in town (http://www.elevatorpreservation.com/2010/03/haughwout-building-otis-elevator-or-a-b-see/). Otis installed the very first passenger elevator ever here back in 1857, but it was upgraded in the 1890s. The old wood and wrought iron cage could be seen just inside the doorway along Broadway. The northernmost bay held a freight elevator that opened onto the street. Lately that whole area has been covered in plywood while renovations take place. I fear they're taking out the old stuff and giving it all an upgrade:

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/SoHo/490BwayElevator_1.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/SoHo/490BwayElevator_2.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/SoHo/490BwayElevator_3.jpg

[mariab]

Cast iron?!? That's an architectural first for me. That top color wouldn't have been so bad if not for the peeling paint & the dirty (painted?) windows. This new gray reminds me of a garage floor. I've only seen one outside entrance to an elevator, in New Brunswick. This is the second. Hopefully they can keep it vintage with new mechanisms. Had no idea this was Otis' first. What is the street address of that 60s mod apartment?

[lofter1]

Sad to say, but when I walked past today I saw that they'd removed the cast iron cross piece where it says ELEVATOR :mad:

[mariab]

That was unnecessary. Unless they're planning to shut that elevator down. Wouldn't make sense. Maybe they'll save the elevator piece for somewhere inside the building, but again, wishful thinking.

[MidtownGuy]

I had a wow moment looking at the photos of the "Kaiser residence"!

[Radiohead]

What is the street address of that 60s mod apartment?


There is no listing of the address of the Kaiser Apt. It was designed by prolific designer Paul Rudolph (1918-97), who also designed Halston's Manhattan residence (http://71-verse.blogspot.com/2009/08/halstons-old-house-paul-rudolph.html) and the Edersheim Apartment (http://www.flickr.com/photos/73172555@N00/sets/72157605237888617/). I wonder if he could have done anything with the Radiohead Apartment (http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/71/6e/a9f302e54b80914eb5857b04bba2.jpeg).

[lofter1]

That Kaiser pad is very Clockwork Orange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvWyYz9ttk).

[mariab]

Oh LAWD radiohead please tell me it ain't yours! Surely you have a much warmer place to lay your (radio)head?

Clockwork Orange: Chilling. I only watched it once. But the sets were far out.

[Radiohead]

Oh LAWD radiohead please tell me it ain't yours! Surely you have a much warmer place to lay your (radio)head?



Well, I did just buy new sheets to cover that musty mattress. 120 thread count...is that good?:rolleyes:

[TheFunkyMunky]

Great shots!
The vibe of the city looked more down to earth (if that even makes sense)

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

[mariab]

Well, I did just buy new sheets to cover that musty mattress. 120 thread count...is that good?:rolleyes:

Ha! (Insert haughty British accent) Don't you know, you must have at least 200 thread count? LOL! Btw great pics as usual & welcome back!

[Radiohead]

Some '60's color pics from around town. Perhaps this thread needs to be renamed.


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5269922347_23c760f493_o.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5204/5269919319_977b3ff694_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5270530548_da835fb732_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5270530548_9d442c14e0_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/5270526532_96db28084f_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/5270526532_bc0d5be936_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5269916819_e095828b32_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5269916819_46d3d95372_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5270524210_a4e01c257f_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5269915133_3294ddb35c_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5269915133_ccd49d2f25_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5270521470_5f5f59c8d3_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5270518514_6c56a1ba61_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5270518514_7624e923c3_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5270517318_37cd06485d_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5270517318_0d6daec5fb_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

I'm not sure where this is? Across from Lever House?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5048/5269093918_8c8d882390_o.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5270519316_a62a2544ae_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5270519316_4efe11708b_b.jpg

What do you like better, the car or the dog?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5008/5269912151_88053ceaa6_b.jpg

Most of above 13 from kencurtmcintyre/photobucket

2 from Life
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5202/5260119694_bfb116abe2_o.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5259511321_2a8158d78e_o.jpg

1967
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5043/5260119224_27e90d5691_o.jpg

1965. Is that cab great or what? Bring em back. ENLARGE (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5259510849_6a89baf219_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5259510849_6a89baf219_o.jpg

1965
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5260119054_9277de4c0e_o.jpg

...and a similar view from 1975 (from the Then & Now thread)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5256209588_edeb525e51_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5248022476_352948db20_o.jpg

[Merry]

Video: Old Greenwich Village, Just Like The Suburbs!

by Jen Carlson

Want to take a journey back in time to when Greenwich Village was just like Greenwich, Connecticut meets a modern bohemian Casbah? Then watch this vintage video, where the narrator explains that the neighborhood "is the postmark for many countrified cosmopolitans, people who prefer small town casualness to rigid metropolitan dress... Village life is cosmopolitan, yet relaxed, care-free. Pleasure is found in just being alive.

Suburban living, on an urban landscape." Also: sidewalk cafes, free from conservatives! We don't want to give any spoilers, but be sure to stick around for (drum roll, please) the paradoxes and contradictions that nightfall brings.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQwPAQk4548

http://gothamist.com/2011/04/14/video_old_greenwich_village_just_li.php

[lofter1]

@ 0:45 ^ Snooki's Grandma :D

@ 2:10 ^ Justin Bieber's Grand Pops

@ 2:40 ^ Avril Lavigne's Great Auntie

I never realized that NYC had barely any black folks in the '60s :confused: (at least none worth mentioning, according to this vid)

[Radiohead]

Some more old 60's color slides and photos. Unable to credit as I'm unsure where they originally came from.

Enlarge (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5129/5247419227_845b89d8f1_b.jpg)
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Enlarge (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5248022000_352847e734_o.jpg)
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Enlarge (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5248021436_fd37fb59db_o.jpg)
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Enlarge (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5248021666_63dcafc122_o.jpg)
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Enlarge (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6154038677_e0a2b40b9c_o.jpg)
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Enlarge (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5042/5247417867_e92fb27abf_o.jpg)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5042/5247417867_e92fb27abf_o.jpg

[lofter1]

Fantastic.

[Don31]

Wow, great stuff.