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The <n>Flatiron Building</n> in New York, circa 1920-1938. Photo by <n>Irving Browning</n>.

View of the <n>Empire State Building</n> through smog in New York City, November 1953. Photo by <n>Eliot Elisofon</n>.

A rainy day in <n>Times Square</n>, New York City, 1949. Photo by <n>Fred Stein</n>.

A 1951 photograph of New York City by <n>Esther Bubley</n>.

A winter scene in New York City, December 1962. Photo by <n>Leonard McCombe</n> for the <n>LIFE Picture Collection</n>.

<n>New York City Subway; Rush Hour 1957</n>. Photograph found by <n>Matthew Salacuse</n> for his project <n>The Negative Collection</n>.

The <n>Brooklyn Bridge</n> under construction in New York City, c. 1877. Photo by <n>Corbis</n>.

The Main Concourse of <n>Grand Central Terminal</n>, c. 1935-41. Photo by <n>John Collier</n>.

Beams of light in <n>Grand Central Station</n>, New York, circa 1930s-1940s. From <n>Hulton Archive</n>/<n>Getty Images</n>.

An aerial view of <n>New York City</n> and <n>Central Park</n>.

<n>Third Avenue El., New York City, 1954</n> by photographer <n>Elliott Erwitt</n>.

A 1921 view of New York's Herald Square, featuring the <n>New York Herald Building</n> by <n>Stanford White</n>.

A girl feeding swans in <n>Central Park</n>, 1935. Photo by <n>Lewis Hine</n>.

A view of <n>5th Avenue</n> in Manhattan, New York, 1903.

A 1936 photograph by <n>Berenice Abbott</n> of <n>Water and South Streets</n> in Manhattan.

New York City during the <n>Great Blizzard of 1947</n>, captured by <n>LIFE photographers</n>.

The <n>City Hall station</n> in New York City, photographed in 1904. Designed by <n>Heins & LaFarge</n>.

<n>Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne</n> (c. 1910), a <n>Pictorialist</n> photograph by <n>Karl Struss</n>.

The <n>28th Street Station</n> on the New York City subway's opening day, October 27, 1904.

A view of the <n>Brooklyn Bridge</n> during its construction, circa 1878-1879.

The <n>125th Street Station</n> on New York's <n>Third Avenue El</n>, photographed in 1962 by the <n>New York Transit Authority</n>.

Ticket booth at the <n>City Hall Subway Station</n> in New York, c. 1904. Designed by <n>Heins & LaFarge</n>.

The <n>Whitney Museum of American Art</n>, designed by <n>Marcel Breuer</n>, under construction in 1964. Photo by <n>Ezra Stoller</n>.

<n>Easter Sunday</n> on <n>Fifth Avenue</n>, 1900. From the <n>NYPL Digital Collection</n>.