A collection of 27 amazing black and white photographs capture street scenes of New York City in the early 1960s.
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| An image of an eye is projected onto a building at New York by a skyjector. February 1960. |
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| Two policemen pursue the members of a New York street gang after a fight broke out. November 1961. |
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| The Kennedy family. New York. October 17, 1963. |
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| Marilyn Monroe leaving the Pollyclinic in Manhattan, after her gall bladder operation. January 1961. |
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| A lifeguard at Steeplechase park, Coney Island stands with a whistle between her lips as she points to a transgressor in the pool below. In the background is a fairground big-wheel. July 1961. |
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| Exterior of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club in Midtown. January 1962. |
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| Demonstrators carrying placards protest against the murder of James Powell, a 15-year old black teenager who was shot by a policeman, July 23, 1964. |
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| Homeless elderly men outside the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission. January 1961. |
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| Striped awnings cover the windows of R H Macy, a historical shop in Freedomland Park, a Wild West themed park in the Bronx, New York City. August 1960. |
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| Three women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water in Central Park. September 1961. |
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| Paintings on display in Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Artists traditionally exhibit their work on the area's streets in spring and autumn. October 1964. |
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| American sculptor and pop artist Claes Oldenburg makes himself up for a performance in Greenwich Village. He is a pioneer of the expressionist theatre known as 'Happening.' His wife Pat watches the proceedings with a bored expression. June 1962. |
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| Entrance to the Stock Exchange in New York's Wall Street. June 1964. |
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| A snack bar serving food and drinks opposite the First National City Bank in New York's Wall Street. June 1964. |
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| A poodle visits a drug store for dogs in New York City and is fitted with a bathrobe. January 1960. |
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| Ronald Hazel of Brooklyn, New York, works on Thodar, his robot. 1960. |
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| A couple share an intimate moment amongst the 10,000 young people who have gathered in Central Park for an Easter Love-in. January 1961. |
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| Alice and the White Rabbit in the Thanksgiving Parade in New York. November 1961. |
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| New York skyline showing the Newsweek building. May 1961. |
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| Beatles fans in 1964. |
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| A gigantic litter basket in Times Square, New York with a sign saying, 'Just a Drop in the basket keeps new York Clean'. Another sign threatens a $25 fine for any litterbug caught by the Sanitation Police Flying squad. March 1964. |
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| Frank Sinatra drags a soaking wet Laurence Harvey from the lake during location filming of the John Frankenheimer thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' in Central Park, February 1962. |
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| The 58 story Pan American building in New York which stands over the Grand Central Terminal station. January 1962. |
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| Two young women eating lunch in Central Park. July 1961. |
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| The Rolling Stones in New York, June 1964. |
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| A window cleaner at work on the RCA Building, Rockefeller Center. May 1961. |
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| Three children stand and look in the window of Mrs Herbst's bakery. 1960. |
(Photos © Getty Images, via Gothamist)