PHOTO: Steelwork completed in 1933 on the 39 story US Federal Court House at Foley Square, Reade and Center Streets. Looking from Duane and Broadway. View photo at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Steelwork completed in 1933 on the 39 story US Federal Court House at Foley Square, Reade and Center Streets. Looking from Duane and Broadway. View photo at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Steelwork completed in 1933 on the 39 story US Federal Court House at Foley Square, Reade and Center Streets. Looking from Duane and Broadway. View photo at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Oak Street Police Station and the razed area that is to be site of Gov. Alfred E. Smith Housing Project on the Lower East Side circa 1948. View photo at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: It's a long way down... Iron Workers Local 361 climbing the bridge for renovation in 1995, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: After it was a railway but before it was a park the High Line was just an abandoned stretch, shown here in 1997 run down and overgrown, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: A workman waves perched on a girder above Ward's Island during the construction of the Triboro Bridge in 1935, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: A bird's-eye view of the Prospect Park Zoo under construction in June of 1935, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: In 1975 soil excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center is worked into a landfill for what will become Battery Park City and the Esplanade, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: In 1975 soil excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center is worked into a landfill for what will become Battery Park City and the Esplanade, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: It's Rockefeller Center like you've never seen it - completely excavated and under construction in 1932, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Check out this shot of 30 Rockefeller under construction in 1932, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Check out the view from Catherine and Monroe of Knickerbocker Village being developed in 1933, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: A crane lowers the final segment of the Unisphere into place in 1963, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: In 1937 construction workers dug up the ground behind George Washington to add a sunken garden! Click "More Info" to see this historic pic! Read more.
PHOTO: Check out this great aerial shot of the Williamsburg Houses being constructed in 1937! Click "More Info" for this historic pic! Read more.
PHOTO: Check out this pic of the subway first being built here in 1931! Read more.
PHOTO: Before these were apartments, this entire block was Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers! Click "More Info" for an amazing aerial shot of the field from 1951! Read more.
PHOTO: Before it was demolished, the old Madison Square Garden was here since 1925. Click "More Info" to see a great shot of its closing night in 1968! Read more.
PHOTO: Check out this amazing picture of subway construction at Church and Warren from 1927! Read more.
PHOTO: Tunnel commission members show off a model of the tunnel in 1924, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Mayor James J. Walker and board members drop down a shaft to inspect the new 8th Ave subway line in 1928, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: The Grand Concourse is nothing but a giant pit in this shot looking North from Fordham Rd during subway construction in 1929, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Good luck crossing this: the GWB under construction in 1929 has no car deck, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: In 1931, workers cast ballots to name the new Hudson River bridge (choosing George Washington, of course!), at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Workers lower framework into place on the top levels of the first World Trade Center during construction in 1970, at the link. Read more.
PHOTO: Sidewalk superintendents watch construction of a new skyscraper on Lafayette and Leonard in 1971, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Construction of NYC Water Tunnel No. 3 began in 1970 and is expected to continue until 2020. Check out this pic of workers inside the tunnel in 1973, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Did you know the Great Lawn used to be underwater? In 1933 men work on finally filling in the dried bed of the old Lower Reservoir that was here, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: In 1933, after the old Lower Reservoir was finally filled in creating the Great Lawn, youngsters gather for the first unofficial baseball game, at the link! Read more.
PHOTO: Standing outside Ebbets Field around the turn of the century, at the link! Snap of pic of the nabe now and send your "new view" to @nydailynews on Twitter! Read more.