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Snow started falling on Christmas evening in 1947 and continued to the next day. When it was over, accumulation had reached 26.4 inches (67.1 cm) in Central Park. This is what the West Side looked like on December 26, 1947.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
Times Square lives up to its name The Great White Way on December 19, 1948. A snowstorm blanketed the city with more than 15 inches when this picture was taken at 7:30 pm. Surface traffic was slowed to a near standstill and pedestrians were few and far between.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
Pat Stanley, Tom Bosley, and Ellen Hanley after the premiere of "Fiorello!," at the Broadhurst Theatre, November 23, 1959. The musical, about the late mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, has since become a classic. Bosley was a complete unknown at the time.
Photo: John Lent for the AP via the Chicago Tribune
Yesterday we saw Sheridan Square nearly blacked out thanks to a tugboat workers' strike, which caused a fuel famine. Times Square suffered the same fate. Only street lamps were allowed to illuminate the area shortly after midnight, February 12, 1946. Theater marquees and huge electrical billboards were darkened as a result of the mayor's proclamation halting all amusements and closing most businesses.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
Paul Robeson had scant respect for most politicians, but Vito Marcantonio, the longtime congressman from East Harlem, was an exception. (See the recent post on Marcantonio here.) He attended the man's funeral on August 12, 1954.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
Dr. Imre Kovacs, center, pastor of the First Magyar Reformed Church, addresses a group of some 200 Hungarian sympathizers outside the Soviet Union's United Nations embassy, 68th Street and Park Avenue, on May 4, 1957. The group picketed for two hours without incident, in contrast to their demonstration on April 27, which resulted in the arrest of two picketers. Some of the May 4 pickets carried black flags and black cloth-draped Hungarian flags in mourning for Hungarians killed in November, when a revolt in Hungary was suppressed by the Russians.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
Uniformed firefighters, some of them carrying placards demanding increased pay, march around City Hall Park, April 12, 1954. They were picketing City Hall (the building facing the park) in protest over the proposed budget, which would have denied them a raise. Inside City Hall, the Board of Estimate opened three days of hearings on the proposed expense budget.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
New Yorkers struggle through the streets of downtown Manhattan as the city was hit by the Great Atlantic Hurricane (a cyclone), September 14, 1944.
Photo: John Lent for the AP
