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A kiss for the New Year, 1959.
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson via Magnum Photos
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A kiss for the New Year, 1959.
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson via Magnum Photos
Ad for Onyx Hosiery in Town & Country magazine, January 1, 1920. Printed on the border: "Emery & Beers Company Inc. New York sole owners of 'Onyx' and wholesale distributors."
Photo: NYPL
Boys blowing horns on Bleecker Street to welcome the new year, 1943.
Photo: Marjory Collins via Library of Congress (LoC)
One of the many reasons that the 1930s and 1940s were a golden age for New York is its legendary mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Irascible, energetic, funny, polylingual, authoritarian, and deeply humane, he delivered the city government from Tammany Hall, built significant new infrastructure, and gave a voice to ethnic and racial minorities. Here, he assumes his duties for the first of his three terms, getting a good-luck handshake from his predecessor, John P. O'Brien, in the mayor's chambers in City Hall, January 1, 1934.
Photo: Associated Press
The party's over, 1940.
Photo: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images/ Considerable
New Year's Eve during Prohibition. The NY Herald reports on the sober proceedings, January 1, 1921. Apparently they didn't look too hard.
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Detritus of New Year's Eve at the Copacabana, January 1, 1946.
Photo: Phil Greitzer for the NY Daily News
He didn't make his reservation early enough, 1951. A man sits outside after he wasn’t able get a seat to celebrate New Year’s Eve at Sammy’s Bowery Follies.
Photo: Bill Meurer for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/ Considerable