The three tallest buildings are, from left), the City Bank Farmers Trust Building (Cross and Cross, completed 1931 later known as 20 Exchange Place), the Cities Service Building (Clinton & Russell, Holton & George, completed 1932 later known as the American International Building), and the Bank of the Manhattan Company building (H. View of a crescent moon over lower Manhattan, 1946. Nighttime view of the illuminated Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge, 1946. In a small store front called ‘Pop’s Pop Corn’ near Times Square, a white-coated vendor serves two women, 1945.Ī night image of Beef Steak Charlie’s restaurant all lit up in neon on the 50th street and Broadway area, 1945. Pedestrians walk past sign that advertise the Club Samoa, Club Downbeat, and the 3 Deuce on West 52nd Street, 1945. Radio City Music Hall lit up at night, 1945.Ī photo shop specializing in ‘Fine Portraits’ and passport photos near Times Square, 1945. View through the window of an Art Deco-styled Horn and Hardart Automat, 106 West 50th Street, 1945. Vaudeville Loew’s State Theatre at 1540 Broadway at night with traffic and crowds, 1945. Times Square at night with traffic and lit billboards, 1945. View of Times Square, looking south on Broadway from 47th Street, summer 1944. People walk past the Broadway Cocktail Lounge in Times Square during a dim-out in the city, 1943.ĭimout, downtown Manhattan and East River, 1943. Independence Day parade up Fifth Avenue, 1942.Īn exterior view of the entrance to the Ferry Terminal at Liberty Street, 1942.įeeding the ducks and swans in Central Park on a sunny Sunday afternoon, 1943.
Underneath West Side Highway near 125th Street, 1940.ĩth Avenue Elevated armature in Harlem, on 8th Avenue near 127th Street, 1940.
Take a look back at the city in the 1940s through these transcendent photographs taken by the masterly photographer. His grand love for New York was plainly shown in numerous photographs, both in black-and-white and in color, from viewpoints all around the city. One of America’s greatest photographers of the 20th century, Feininger was well-known for his photographs of New York City, which was also his favorite subject. Smoggy waterfront skyline of New York City as seen from the shores of New Jersey, 1946.įrench-born photographer Andreas Feininger moved to the United States in 1939 and started to work at LIFE magazine in 1943.
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