[April 27, 2012]    

AP photos provided by the New York City Municipal Archives

In this Oct. 7, 1914, photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

In this Dec. 22, 1936, Works Progress Administration photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man looks at the Hudson River from the New York tower of the George Washington Bridge.

 

In this Oct. 2, 1930, photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, workers assemble bricks to build the roadway on 28th Street in New York.

In this May 18, 1940, photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man at the corner of New York's Sixth Avenue and 40th Street reads a newspaper with the headline: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris."

 

In this circa 1890 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a pair of girls walk east along 42nd Street in New York. Acker, Merrall and Condit wine shop delivery wagons are on the right, and the C.C. Shayne Furrier sign can be seen on the roof overhead.

In this 1918 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, police work a homicide after children found the body of Gaspare Candella stuffed in a burlap-covered drum out in the middle of a Brooklyn, N.Y., field.