Manhattan Street Scenes
By Barry Moreno
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Manhattan Street Scenes - Barry Moreno
Manhattan.
INTRODUCTION
From uptown to downtown, from east side to west side, this volume will show you the many moods of old Manhattan and the life of its people in years long since gone. In fact, the photographs within these pages were all taken in the years that span the 1860s through the 1960s, an age when New York—which to everyone meant Manhattan—had already achieved universal recognition as one of the globe’s foremost cities. Through the miracle of photographic tableaux, this book chronicles that exceptional time—an era when Manhattan’s magnificent skyline was still unique in the world, when its celebrated ticker tape parades thrilled the city, and when the glitter of Times Square and its theaters and the multitude of motor traffic and pedestrians crowding its thoroughfares emphasized its role as the chief American metropolis. Aside from the images that tell something of that story, this book also contains unusual pictures seldom seen. Among them are some 70 rare police and crime photographs that show events occurring in a time far removed from our own.
Although the city of New York embraces five grand boroughs, its greatest by far is Manhattan, for it was there that New York City saw its initial development, first as a Dutch colonial town called New Amsterdam and later as the namesake city of England’s Duke of York. Over the course of decades, the community underwent phenomenal growth and change and soon developed into a formidable hub of world trade and industry as well as the continent’s greatest metropolis. Although a burgeoning population—often of migrants both from within the country and abroad—placed a great strain on the city’s resources, it usually found solutions to deal with these difficulties. As it matured, Manhattan also attracted the liveliest arts (drama, music, literature, and dance), as well as merchants, investors, and intellectuals. There, too, political power took many forms, from the old days of Tammany Hall to the installation of the United Nations following the end of World War II.
For those wishing to gain an understanding of that most extraordinary of places, there can be no more revealing a form—at least in still art—than in glimpses of the past as preserved by photography. Pictures of old Manhattan possess a strange and illusive vibrancy, one that suggests why the place attracted the critical attention of so many generations of artists, writers, musicians, and others of their kind. And although pictures needs must tell only bits and pieces of life, they have the wonderful capacity of encouraging the imagination to envision other scenes of city life, even if only in dreams.
Taken by a great many cameramen and camerawomen, the pictures appearing in this book were produced over a span of more than 80 years. During that time, the photographers observed and documented the great city in the throes of its expansion and development. They documented its inhabitants as they went about their affairs, almost entirely unconscious of the scrutiny. These images are not only relevant to the story of New York but are also highly relevant to the history of North America as a whole, the continent where millions of peoples—both native born and foreign—were to leave their mark and so influence the generations and individuals that have followed.
Each of the 10 chapters in this book discloses a unique vision of Manhattan. The