1920s new york

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

Palais Royal - New York City, 1920

Wanamaker's Department Store in NYC at Christmas time, 1930’s.

Lower east side NY apartments c.1920s/30s

This picture is a primary source which shows women who were demonstrating against alcohol. A lot of violence against women is because of alcohol so that is the reason for them to demonstrate.

East Houston Street in Manhattan, New York City, in the 1920s. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Houston_Street_1920s.jpg

It took five years to build Penn Station: millions of tons of granite, steel, stone, and bricks were transformed into a triumphant Beaux Arts monument to modern transportation that officially opene…

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