Rare, historic photos of New York City

2013-05-05 03:14:36 GMT2013-05-05 11:14:36(Beijing Time)

In this circa 1890 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a pair of girls walk east along 42nd Street in New York. Acker, Merrall and Condit wine shop delivery wagons are on the right and the C.C. Shayne Furrier sign can be seen on the roof overhead. Over 870,000 photos from an archive that exceeds 2.2 million images have been scanned and made available online, for the first time giving a global audience a view of a rich collection that documents life in New York City.(Photo:Agencies)

In this July 29, 1908 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, workers dig in the street along the sidewalk on the north side of Delancey Street in New York. (Photo:Agencies)

In this Oct. 7, 1914 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.(Photo:Agencies)

In this Dec. 22, 1936, Works Progress Administration photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man looks at the Hudson River from the New York tower of the George Washington Bridge. (Photo:Agencies)

Sunlight steams through the dome windows striking the floor of the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in 1937. (Photo:Agencies)

This is a photo of the soon to be complete Triborough Bridge taken from the Queens side of New York City on July 7, 1936. (Photo:Agencies)

After hours of indoor practice, dancers from a New Jersey nightclub come outdoors to carry on their rehearsal in the spring air on the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge, April 24, 1951.(Photo:Agencies)