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todaysdocument:

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center officially opened 40 years ago on April 4, 1973.  At the time of their completion they were the tallest buildings in the world.

These photos, taken shortly after the World Trade Center was completed in the early 1970s, are part of the DOCUMERICA series, a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency to photographically document subjects of environmental concern in America during the 1970s.

Find more images from DOCUMERICA at “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project,” now open at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

brain-food:

Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.

(Source: candidnewyork)

-cityoflove:

New York City, New York via _meta_

ckck:

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, circa 1903.

Photograph by Edward Steichen.

curgius:

Winter Arrives in Manhattan by trisgti on Flickr.

LATE at night, there are intervals when Urdu is the only language spoken in Haandi, a fanatically adored restaurant that may be the most popular after-hours spot in the area known as Curry Hill. It is as integral to some taxi drivers’ routines as the gas needed to refuel their cars.

Where Cabbies Go For Biryani | NYT

John Vachon, Times Square, 1943 (original)

fuck-yeah-beautiful-places:

Central Park at Dusk, New York City (by andrew c mace)

bbook:

The photographer’s classic book Subway is an extraordinarily visceral record of the city in the 1980s – and provides a revealing contrast to Walker Evans’s earlier underground images

knope-:

Autumn settles into Central Park

(Source: chestnutsroasting)

inothernews:

The twin towers of World Trade Center, poking through the clouds in the spring of 2001.

(Photo: Katie Day Weisberger via the New York Times)

nevver:

Harry Campbell