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Wild Manhattan Nights: A Peek Inside The Latin Quarter, 1949

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Notes from Underground: Subways of New York

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On Tour With the First Miss Alaska

Blizzard in New York City, Mar. 18-19, 1956. history

Vintage Blizzard Photos: New York City, 1956

Children playing in water during a heat wave in New York City, 1953. history

New Yorkers Beat the Heat in the Sizzling Summer of ’53

Sumner Avenue (now Marcus Garvey Boulevard) near Myrtle Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, 1946. destinations

Hipsterless Brooklyn: Photos From a Vanished World

Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, 1947 arts & entertainment

Brando Takes Broadway: LIFE on the Set of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ in 1947

Blizzard, New York City, December 1947. nature

The Great Blizzard of 1947: New York, Buried in White

Photo from a public "genius school" for 3-to-11-year-olds at New York's Hunter College, 1948. history

LIFE Goes to a School For Kid Geniuses, 1948

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‘Career Girl’: A Famed Portrait of a Young Woman’s Life in 1948 New York

Ray Charles, with arms outstretched, during performance at Carnegie Hall, 1966. people

Ray Charles: Photos of a Musical Genius On Stage and Off

New York City graffiti, 1969. arts & entertainment

We Were Here: Graffiti and the Human Cry for Connection

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