These stunning historical photographs show how New York City looked like in the 1880s. The images show the streets of NY, hustling crowds of Manhattan and the frolicking bathers of Coney Island. Men in the city are seen wearing suits and top hats, and women are wearing long dresses.
Wallace G. Levison captured these photographs in the late 19th century. He was a chemist and the founder of Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences in the latter half of the 19th century. He was also an avid photographer, using the new technology both as a scientific tool and a recreational activity.
The purest form of collective culture is architecture. Harmonization and speed of transformation are machines unto themselves.
Modernism is a disease.
No, but it’s wasteful to replace an ornate and beautiful structure with a sleek concrete slab. In this case, a fucking statue replaced the building.
It doesn’t make sense to me that people think anything old is a master piece if someone left a Beaux-Arts mansion above it. It looks pretty silly, a high rise is not a four-story mansion, so why do you insist on building a mansion as a roof?
On a four-story mansion, this roof would look out of place. It’s much too big for that. An interesting silhouette and a soaring sense of grandeur and character are perfectly suited to a tower of this nature.
That’s a lot of jumping.
I think it was a fetish
What else was there to do in the 1880s? Get TB?
Migrants then and migrants now we can never stop them migrating to NYC.