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May 28, 2012  |  109 notes

Aug. 4, 1959: Toots Shor at a hole in the wall of his West 51st Street restaurant, Toots Shor’s, which was demolished to make way for the Zeckendorf Hotel. (The wrecking ball was painted to resemble a baseball, a tip to the sportsmen who frequented the restaurant.) Mr. Shor was a one-time speakeasy bouncer “whose style and enterprise carried him into the circles of mink-clad society and cigar-chomping politicians,” according to a 1971 article about the closing of another of his restaurants.Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times
Aug. 4, 1959: Toots Shor at a hole in the wall of his West 51st Street restaurant, Toots Shor’s, which was demolished to make way for the Zeckendorf Hotel. (The wrecking ball was painted to resemble a baseball, a tip to the sportsmen who frequented the restaurant.) Mr. Shor was a one-time speakeasy bouncer “whose style and enterprise carried him into the circles of mink-clad society and cigar-chomping politicians,” according to a 1971 article about the closing of another of his restaurants.Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

Aug. 4, 1959: Toots Shor at a hole in the wall of his West 51st Street restaurant, Toots Shor’s, which was demolished to make way for the Zeckendorf Hotel. (The wrecking ball was painted to resemble a baseball, a tip to the sportsmen who frequented the restaurant.) Mr. Shor was a one-time speakeasy bouncer “whose style and enterprise carried him into the circles of mink-clad society and cigar-chomping politicians,” according to a 1971 article about the closing of another of his restaurants.Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

May 25, 2012  |  155 notes

June 18, 1978: An abandoned pier collapsed into the Hudson River at Bethune Street in Greenwich Village, but that didn’t faze sunbathing New Yorkers. After all, they considered the piers their beaches, according to an article published two years later. “The pier in the Village replaces the stoop,” one West Village resident, Robert Lienhardt, was quoted as saying. “There is no other major place to get the sun.” Photo: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
June 18, 1978: An abandoned pier collapsed into the Hudson River at Bethune Street in Greenwich Village, but that didn’t faze sunbathing New Yorkers. After all, they considered the piers their beaches, according to an article published two years later. “The pier in the Village replaces the stoop,” one West Village resident, Robert Lienhardt, was quoted as saying. “There is no other major place to get the sun.” Photo: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times

June 18, 1978: An abandoned pier collapsed into the Hudson River at Bethune Street in Greenwich Village, but that didn’t faze sunbathing New Yorkers. After all, they considered the piers their beaches, according to an article published two years later. “The pier in the Village replaces the stoop,” one West Village resident, Robert Lienhardt, was quoted as saying. “There is no other major place to get the sun.” Photo: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times

May 21, 2012  |  101 notes

Nov. 17, 1945: Celebrating the first birthday of a 15-ton model of the Statue of Liberty in Times Square, which was erected by the War Activities Committee of the film industry to encourage interest in war bonds. The statue was declared a hazard two months later, according to an article in The Times, and scheduled for demolition after engineers found a crack running from the base to the top. Photo: The New York Times
Nov. 17, 1945: Celebrating the first birthday of a 15-ton model of the Statue of Liberty in Times Square, which was erected by the War Activities Committee of the film industry to encourage interest in war bonds. The statue was declared a hazard two months later, according to an article in The Times, and scheduled for demolition after engineers found a crack running from the base to the top. Photo: The New York Times

Nov. 17, 1945: Celebrating the first birthday of a 15-ton model of the Statue of Liberty in Times Square, which was erected by the War Activities Committee of the film industry to encourage interest in war bonds. The statue was declared a hazard two months later, according to an article in The Times, and scheduled for demolition after engineers found a crack running from the base to the top. Photo: The New York Times

May 16, 2012  |  122 notes

Feb. 2, 1969: The Staten Island Ferry was “the only nickel nightclub in town,” according to an article that ran the following day, deeming the ferry “a combination of subway and ocean cruise; of playground and library; of respite from frenzy and preparation for pleasure.” The reporter, Murray Schumach, found inspiration in these lines from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “We were very tired, we were very merry/We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times
Feb. 2, 1969: The Staten Island Ferry was “the only nickel nightclub in town,” according to an article that ran the following day, deeming the ferry “a combination of subway and ocean cruise; of playground and library; of respite from frenzy and preparation for pleasure.” The reporter, Murray Schumach, found inspiration in these lines from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “We were very tired, we were very merry/We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times

Feb. 2, 1969: The Staten Island Ferry was “the only nickel nightclub in town,” according to an article that ran the following day, deeming the ferry “a combination of subway and ocean cruise; of playground and library; of respite from frenzy and preparation for pleasure.” The reporter, Murray Schumach, found inspiration in these lines from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “We were very tired, we were very merry/We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times

Apr 30, 2012  |  124 notes

March 23, 1960: It was a battle between man and pigeon on Park Avenue, where an agent from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to capture three pigeons trapped in the Union Carbide Building, new at the time. The agent, Tom Morton, was able to net only one bird.  “Two pigeons that somehow had got built into the skyscraper, along with air conditioning and escalators, proved slicker than people,” the article read. Photo: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times
March 23, 1960: It was a battle between man and pigeon on Park Avenue, where an agent from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to capture three pigeons trapped in the Union Carbide Building, new at the time. The agent, Tom Morton, was able to net only one bird.  “Two pigeons that somehow had got built into the skyscraper, along with air conditioning and escalators, proved slicker than people,” the article read. Photo: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times

March 23, 1960: It was a battle between man and pigeon on Park Avenue, where an agent from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to capture three pigeons trapped in the Union Carbide Building, new at the time. The agent, Tom Morton, was able to net only one bird.  “Two pigeons that somehow had got built into the skyscraper, along with air conditioning and escalators, proved slicker than people,” the article read. Photo: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times