215 old pecan street

on the road, alamogordo, 1991

bloomberg's new york

LIC 2000/2013

26 reed street then/now

essex street

From the NYPL archive, anticipating the release of the Department of Records motherlode.

106 Mulberry

Ephemeral New York leads us to a great series of vintage shots by Andreas Feininger.

houston and lafayette, then and now

vivian maier, 103rd and Broadway

vivian maier

Speaking of found negatives, Ephemeral New York has a great post on Vivian Maier, whose street photography was discovered by someone who bought the contents of a storage locker at auction. There are two great vintage New York portfolios on the Maier website, including a couple of surviving East Village corners.

ludlow & hester

new york '79

Flaming Pablum linked up a great Flickr set by M. Joedicke from 1979. Great to see how gritty the city was, and also how much has managed to survive the last 30 years.

also from mcny

Prince and Mulberry streets by Berenice Abbott in 1930, and more recently by Google streetview.

Also, Avenue A and Second Street, from March 28, 1947, photographed by the Wurts brothers and via Google streetview, from a distant past day when Graceland was still in business.