Summertime is at once the best and worst season in NYC. There is an energy and excitement in the air… but the face-melting heat can be overwhelming… but has the city always been like that?
We are fortunate to have a collection of photographs, from the National Archives and Records Administration, taken by Danny Lyon. The photos are a snapshot of New York in the summer of 1974 and are both alien and familiar at the same time.
Check them out below.
Manhattan Bridge Tower in Brooklyn
Manhattan Skyline 1974
Williamsburg Bridge
Two girls pose in Lynch Park, Brooklyn
Across the street from Fort Green Park in Brooklyn
Brownstones in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Teenager with a broken leg in Highland Park
A softball game in Highland Park, Brooklyn
Playground street-art in Brooklyn
Wall paintings on Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn
Playing frisbee
Three young girls in Brooklyn
Boy Scout Leader in the Bedford–Stuyvesant District
Playing ball in Highland Park, Brooklyn
Riis Park public beach in Brooklyn
Kosciusko Public Swimming Pool in the heart of Bedford–Stuyvesant
The Kosciusko Swimming Pool in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Kosciosko Swimming Pool
Kosciusko Public Swimming Pool in the heart of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Lynch Park, Brooklyn
1970s Graffiti in Brooklyn
Three girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn
RKO Bushwick Theater
Children at the beach in Riis Park, Brooklyn
Softball in Highland Park
Underneath the subway at Bushwick Ave
Images credit: [vintag]