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NYPD bomb squad officers carrying a pipe bomb out of Penn Station, June 12, 1957.
Photo: Tom Baffer for the NY Daily News via Momentos del Pasado
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NYPD bomb squad officers carrying a pipe bomb out of Penn Station, June 12, 1957.
Photo: Tom Baffer for the NY Daily News via Momentos del Pasado
That quintessential New York summer activity: opening a fire hydrant to cool off. This one was on 45th Street and 10th Avenue in 1959.
Photo: Tom Baffer for the NY Daily News
Dancers from the musical Me and Juliet pose on 44th St. in celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein Week, August 28, 1953. Second from right in the back row is Shirley MacLaine, then a member of the chorus.
Left to right, front row: Susan Lovell, Patty Ann Jackson, Pat Poole. Left to right, second row: Harriet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Thelma Tadlock, Elizabeth Logue.
Photo: Tom Baffer for the NY Daily News via Getty Images
A lethal bomb, in a basket, is gingerly transported into a special van outside Bryant Park, December 24, 1956. The apparent work of George Metesky, the “Mad Bomber” who terrorized New Yorkers for 16 years, the five-inch pipeful of gunpowder was found in a phone booth of the Public Library, 42d St. and Fifth Ave.
Photo: Tom Baffer for the NY Daily News via Getty Images