Sep 6, 2025
As wreckers tore down neighboring structures to make way for a $75 million office building, this old five-story brownstone stubbornly remained, at 620 Lexington Avenue, September 6, 1957.
Photo: Associated Press
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As wreckers tore down neighboring structures to make way for a $75 million office building, this old five-story brownstone stubbornly remained, at 620 Lexington Avenue, September 6, 1957.
Photo: Associated Press
Woman at counter, Harlem, September 6, 1949.
Photo: Richard Avedon via the Richard Avedon Foundation
On September 6, 1931, this building at the corner of 44th Street and 10th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen was almost entirely covered in advertisements, from the painted brick exterior to poster board signs.
Photo: Frank Savastano via the NYC Municipal Archives Instagram
British aviator Beryl Markham is mobbed by reporters when she arrived at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on September 6, 1936. The plaster on her forehead covers cuts suffered when she crashed on the shore of Baleine Cove, Breton Island, Canada, due to a gasoline shortage caused by ice on the fuel tank. Her plane was badly damaged, but she escaped with a scratched face and a bruised body. She was trying to fly from Europe to New York. Although she did not reach New York, she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic east-west solo.
Photo: Associated Press
The ice breaker "City of New York" sails from New York Harbor, September 6, 1928, captained by Commander Richard Byrd, at the start of its 13,000 mile voyage to Antarctica.
Photo: Associated Press
Not a sight you see very often on the subway—a rider holding a wicker lunch basket. This lady and her companions were tourists in town for the Labor Day weekend, September 6, 1942. That weekend saw a record number of visitors, while New Yorkers who were able to do so fled the city.
Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP
British aviatrix Beryl Markham acknowledges the crowd at Floyd Bennett Field on September 6, 1936. With her are Acting Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, representing Mayor La Guardia. Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from Britain. She crash-landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, sustaining a minor head injury.
Photo: AP via My Record-Journal
FBI arrests Oath Keepers leader on charge of seditious conspiracy involving Jan. 6 attack (ABC News). Hopefully, the FBI is building is case like an organized crime investigation: Start with the smaller players and work their way up as high as the conspiracy goes.