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Contrasting Eras: New York City in the 1920s Compared to the Present Day _ USStories

   

The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s.

Then: Battery Park (1922)

 

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Then: Lower Manhattan

 

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Then: 34th Street & Fifth Avenue (1922)

 

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Then: Times Square (1922)

 

Now

 

Then: Times Square (1922)

 

Now

 

Then: Times Square (1923)

 

Now

 

Then: The Lowell Fountain at Bryant Park

 

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Then: Fifth Ave & 53rd Street (1922)

 

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Then: Columbus Circle (1924)

 

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Then: Manhattan Municipal Building (1924)

 

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Then: Wall Street (1921)

 

Now

 

Then: Union Square (1921)

 

Now

 

Then: Union Square (1922)

 

Now

 

Then: Pennsylvania Station (1922)

 

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Then: Penn Station

 

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Then: Herald Square (1923)

 

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Then: Fifth Avenue & 59th Street (1924)

 

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Then: Holland Tunnel construction (1924)

 

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Then: 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue (1924)

 

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Then: Church and Warren Streets during subway construction (1927)

 

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Then: Broome Street from Broadway (1925)

 

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Then: Sherry Netherland Hotel and Plaza Hotel from Central Park (1928)

 

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Then: Central Park (1925)

 

Now

 

Then: Chrysler Building spire construction (1929)

 

Now
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