What New York looked like 100 years ago. Unique frames!

New York - concrete jungle where dreams are created and come true. You won’t believe it, but it was the same in 1915 ...

TravelAsk wants to show you what New York looked like - one of the most popular and impressive megacities of our time, a world center of business, fashion and art, a tourist's dream a hundred years ago. These unique snapshots are stored on the Flickr page of the Library of Congress. Here you can find hundreds of wonderful photographs depicting New York in the early 19th century - an era of unprecedented change in America. We offer some of the most fascinating images of the Big Apple, taken from 1910 to 1915.

A woman crosses Fifth Avenue and Broadway, heading for Madison Square.

A group of Italian students are ready for the school day.

New Yorkers relax in the shade of Battery Park on a hot day.

People are getting ready for the start of yacht racing in Central Park, New York.

People are inflating a balloon on the roof of John Vanamaker’s store at the intersection of Broadway and Tenth Avenue, planning to go to Philadelphia.

Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924) - Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission at the entrance to the New York subway, in the tunnel of which there was a fire on January 6, 1915.

A cleaning machine is parked on a New York street.

Fire brigade descends in a team down the street.

Street carts providing mass transportation of New Yorkers.

Coney Island beaches long before swimming became fashionable.

A group of children on the New York Lower East Side.

Fifth Avenue at busy noon.

A man puts his head in the jaws of a hippopotamus in Central Park.

Children play in the fountain of Madison Square on a hot day.

Remains of a car on the edge of a bridge after an accident in Central Park.

Jewish schoolboy on his way to school.

Suffragettes sell flowers in the streets.

Bathers enjoy a good day on Brighton Beach.

A man is shaved with a dangerous razor at the Hotel de Gink hairdresser.

These are the consequences of the fire in the New York subway tunnel that occurred near 55th West Street and Broadway on January 6, 1915.

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