Sasha returns from NYC

New York Archival photos

New York City's Grand Central Terminal, Photo taken ca. 1935-1941. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

A man reads a newspaper on New York's 6th Ave. and 40th St, with the headline: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris.", on May 18, 1940. (AP Photo/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge, on October 7, 1914. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

Aboard a police boat on October 10, 1934, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia hacks away at confiscated slot machines about to be destroyed and dumped into New York harbor.

New York  has a gravitational pull for our family. My husband and I moved there in our 20s, bright eyed and ready to experience all it could throw at us. Our home was a brownstone on the upper west side between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (The photo of the washing hanging between the brownstones was exactly how it looked from our back terrace-minus the washing). Now our three children are experiencing NYC for themselves and to celebrate the return yesterday of our youngest from her first solo trip to visit dear friends, I thought I'd share these wonderful archival photos. 
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A view down an alley, as rows and rows of laundry hang from tenements ca. 1935-1941. Seen looking west from Columbus Avenue or Amsterdam Avenue at 63nd Street. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

Brooklyn Bridge painters at work December 3, 1915. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

Times Square The Times Building, Loew's Theatre, Hotel Astor, 1938 photo. (Bofinger, E.M./Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)