Weekend, January 8-9, 2022 – Glance thru the thousands of photos and make great discoveries

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

WEEKEND,  JANUARY 8-9, 2022

THE  567th  EDITION

SURPRISES IN THE

MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES


PHOTO COLLECTION

I was looking for an administration building on the NYC Municipal Archives digital collection website. These are some of the images classified under “administration”

TO ENLARGE THESE IMAGES TO SEE THE DETAILS GO TO:
NYC.GOV/RECORDS
GO TO HISTORICAL RECORDS
GO TO COLLECTIONS
GO TO DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
IN SEARCH TYPE IN “ADMINISTRATION”

Rendering, aerial view of landplane base administration building proposed for North Beach Airport.

Site plan, proposed Municipal Airport #2, North Beach, Queens, prepared by WPA engineers. Date: 1935-1939

United States. National Recovery Administration. Consumers’ Division Subject: New York Public Library Subject: Parades Date: September 13, 1933

United States. National Recovery Administration. Consumers’ Division Subject: Parades Date: September 19, 1933

Copy of rendering, City Island-Hart Island Administration Building. Small one-story building.

High Pressure Fire Service Pumping Station, Coney Island. Public Works Administration Docket. Date: September 1937

WPA workers demolishing shacks of Hoover City, erected on Red Hook dump land. Date: 1930-1939

Betsy Head Memorial Playground Bathhouse. WPA bathhouse. Two large pools, many young people. Date: 1940-1949

A full view of the modern pool, with community bath house in rear, concrete walk for observers in foreground and buildings of neighborhood in background Book for Which Intended: New York City Guide Date: August, 1936

Rendering, proposed new administration building. Department of Marine & Aviation: Pier A (Blistered) Date:   November 20, 1942

WPA Description: Two chimps embracing keeper; one is on leash. Keeper also carries feeding pan. Onlookers seated against administration building Book for Which Intended:  New York City Guide Date: July 1937

Armored Cars installed by Comptroller Berry during this administration now protect the City’s Millions in Cash Payrolls. Subject: Department of Finance Subject: Workers Description: Workers wait to receive pay from armored car under the Brooklyn Bridge. Date: 1920-1930

Airports–LaGuardia Airport Description: Rendering, seaplane base administration building, seen from Bowery Bay. Date: 1935-1939

Description: 655- Acre “Terminal City” Development will replace this small cinder block Administration Building. Which was the only Passenger Terminal Facility at New York International Airport when the Port Authority Assumed Responsibility for its Development and Space in 1947 Date: 1956

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FRIDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

MOVIE THEATRE AT FRESH MEADOWS DEVELOPMENT
NINA LUBLIN, REPORTS 

Subject:Todays Pix is that of the Fresh Meadows, Queens Movie Theatre by the 188th Street & Horace Harding Blvd along side the Robert Moses-built LIE……at the Fresh Meadows Shopping Center, home of one of the first Bloomingdales branches… Where I spent lots of times w. family & friends &  it was next door to the Horn & Hardhart Automat!!  And near the Fresh Meadows apartments—

All built in the post WW2 era.:

LAURA HUSSEY, GLORIA BROWN, ED LITCHER  AND GLORIA HERMAN KNOW THEIR THEATRES

THE FIRST BLOOMINGDALES BRANCH.

SOURCES

NYC MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

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Text by Judith Berdy
Edited by Deborah Dorff
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 PHOTOS IN THIS ISSUE (C) JUDITH BERDY RIHS

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