Incredible Photos Trace The History Of Lower Manhattan
18 photos
Charlie Chaplin promoting Liberty Bonds at a pep rally on Wall Street, April 1918
The aftermath of the Wall Street Bombing, September 16th, 1920
A group of "newsies" on February 12th, 1908
The pastry counter at a Syrian restaurant in Little Syria in the 1920s
Traders bidding at the New York Curb Market, 1925
People gathered along Cortlandt Street's Radio Row, circa 1940
A woman tossing ticker tape over a balcony during the celebration of Germany's surrender, May 7th 1945
A model of the proposed Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, 1939
Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy on October 18th, 1960, a month before he won the presidency
Shop owners protesting the demolition of Radio Row, July 13th, 1962
Architect Minoru Yamasaki & Governor Nelson Rockefeller view a model of the World Trade Center, January 16th, 1964
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy with a fishmonger at the Fulton Fish Market, September 2nd, 1964
The demolition of Radio Row, 1967
Daredevil Philippe Petit walking the wire between the Twin Towers, August 7th, 1974
9/11
One of site master planner Daniel Libeskind's early sketches of new WTC, 2002
Workers on the glass roof of the Oculus, 2015
The new WTC and 9/11 Memorial, May 2018