MetaFilter posts tagged with photos and newyorkcity

NYC in Black and White (mostly)

cerebus19 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:04:52 -0800

New York City in (mostly) black and white. A huge collection of photos starting in the 1880s—some beautiful, all fascinating. Previously.

Yet more B&W NYC (and Paris) photos for your enjoyment.

CunningLinguist — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:23:03 -0800

Louis Stettner: Atmospheric black and white photos of Paris and New York by Brooklyn-born photographer who now lives in France. Some are sexy, some amusing, some poignant. A series on Penn station in the 1950s is especially nice, and a big contrast to the candy colored Mad Men palette. Beware mispelled main url. via.

NYC photos 1968-1972

CunningLinguist — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:06:50 -0800

"New York City 1968-1972" Some very compelling black and white street photography by Paul McDonough. via

A lost treasure from New York's attic

ryanshepard — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:59:14 -0800

A long-lost treasure too toxic to touch: Construction at New York City's Harlem Community Justice Center recently revealed a room piled high with records documenting the building's former life as an early 20th century prison. They offer a peek into the street life of ca. 1900 NYC and scholars are already interested - there's only one problem: the room also contains decades worth of toxic pigeon droppings. (NY Times - registration required). Photos (click on the "records rescue" link at the bottom) of the room are available at the great correctionhistory.org which also offers histories and photos of other out-of-the-way corners of NYC like the Hart Island Potter's Field.

Satan's Laundromat

anastasiav — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:22:12 -0800

I've become addicted to Satan's Laundromat -- a photoblog based out of Brooklyn that shows NYC daily in all its weird and wonderful glory.

Magnificent Obsessions, part 98

anastasiav — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:19:30 -0800

More Magnificent Obsessions - 14to42.net - "This site intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street." Great photos of Ghost Signs, signs painted on buildings, signs attached to buildings, window signs, modern signs, graffiti signs, and even some pretty creepy signs, along with some surprisingly complete histories of the businesses the signs were made to advertise.

JackthaStripper — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:06:49 -0800

extremely good photographs non graphic, but so excellant in showing many facets of this disaster.