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New York State · New YorkIn the first decades of the 20th century, the streets of the Bronx told a story of a borough in transition. One could find grand, Parisian-style boulevards, bustling commercial avenues shadowed by elevated trains, dense residential blocks of new brick tenements, and quiet, unpaved country roads, all within a few miles of each other. The streetscape was a dynamic mix of the old rural Bronx and the new urban borough. The grandest street in the bor…Read Article
A Photographic Tour of The Bronx Streets in the Early 1900s

New York City · New YorkIn the early 1900s, Fifth Avenue was a place where the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages mingled with the rumble of new motor omnibuses, and where the city’s wealthiest families built homes of staggering size and detail. The stretch of Fifth Avenue bordering Central Park, from 59th Street to 96th Street, earned the nickname “Millionaire’s Row.” Here stood the grand mansions of New York’s most prominent families. The Vanderbilts, a family who am…Read Article
What Fifth Avenue looked like in the 1900s: A Photographic Tour

New York State · New YorkOn the warm evening of Thursday, June 16, 1898, the main avenues of the Bronx were transformed into a moving spectacle of light and color. This was the night of the annual floral bicycle parade, the largest public celebration organized by the Associated Cycling Clubs of the Bronx. The event was the peak of the borough’s “bicycle craze,” a time when cycling was both a serious sport and a popular social pastime for men and women alike. Well before…Read Article