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1970-1979 photographs



Title
Description
Identifier

Construction equipment tipped on the side

REC0022_01_1972_055

Views of exposed steel frame billboard alongside the Gowanus Expressway; various car dealer signs, GMC, Mercedes-Benz.

REC0022_01_1972_059

Street views and building exteriors; park interior with people on bicycles; seal-ups and vacant lots; storefronts; Third Avenue elevated train in Bathgate section.

REC0022_01_1972_069

Tearing up Belgian block on West 166th Street.

REC0022_01_1972_071

Building exteriors and street views in Bathgate section of Bronx; commercial businesses, railroad tracks, vacant lots, seal-ups.

REC0022_01_1972_073

Street views of Mott Haven area, building exteriors, intersections and vacant lots

REC0022_01_1972_075

Party for Benjamin Altman with Mayor Lindsay and Administrator Walsh; presentation of a gift, people eating dinner.

REC0022_01_1972_077

Wide shots of site with single-family homes under construction and foundation footprints.

REC0022_01_1972_079

Exteriors of sloping hill, with men standing around having a discussion.

REC0022_01_1972_080

Building exteriors and street views of East New York; 2-, 3- and 4-story buildings; one view of building entrance.

REC0022_01_1972_082

Plumbing storefront, ground floor of 4-story building; close-up of door.

REC0022_01_1972_085

Administrator Walsh and other HAD staff revealing scale model plan for Harbor Village; with Donald Elliott and Deputy Mayor Morrison.

REC0022_01_1972_087

Amusement park rides, tight shots of unsafe conditions including rusted metal joints

REC0022_01_1972_089

Amusement park rides, tight shots of unsafe conditions including rusted metal joints

REC0022_01_1972_090

Construction site, with disabled crane; surrounding buildings on Second Avenue and East 58th Street.

REC0022_01_1972_093

Commissioner Frank Padavan at his desk, on the phone.

REC0022_01_1972_095

Building exteriors and apartment interiors showing damage/disrepair, roof views; exact locations not indicated.

REC0022_01_1972_097

Front and rear views of 3-story building near collapse, top two floors are falling in on the ground floor.

REC0022_01_1972_099

Street and aerial views of abandoned 6-story building.

REC0022_01_1972_100

Street views and 2-, 3- and 4-story building exteriors of the Mott Haven/Morrisania sections of the Bronx.

REC0022_01_1972_102

Street views of the building.

REC0022_01_1972_103

Partially collapsed building; piles of debris and rubble, surrounding buildings.

REC0022_01_1972_105

Former bread factory located next to railroad tracks.

REC0022_01_1972_106

Street level views of Ocean Park apartment buildings, as seen from the beach; lifeguard and beach-goers in foreground.

REC0022_01_1972_109

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