New york city 1920s

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

New York circa 1920. Palais Royal, Broadway.

In this amazing colorized photo by Sanna Dullaway, we see Broad Street in New York City some time between 1900 and 1910

This is a great pic The Third ave and Second Ave El's met here That is a Forney steam engine pulling the coaches Third ave El Interior of a Blue Bird Brooklyn El construction Connecting the culver

Cotton Club November 4, 1927 Duke Ellington’s big band opened at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group.

The city has undergone some major changes since the Roaring '20s. Then: Battery Park (1922) Now Then: Lower Manhattan No...

Ahead, see what New York was like during the Jazz Age, from old Ebbets Field to the height of Prohibition.