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Paul Thompson/FPG//Getty ImagesWomen helping with the war effort show off their military uniforms while standing across from Broadway.
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Paul Thompson/FPG//Getty ImagesChildren attend a fundraiser in Central Park to raise money for the people in occupied France during World War I.
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Bettmann//Getty ImagesDuring the coal famine, people gather in the streets of New York hoping to get a few pounds of coal to heat their homes.
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Bettmann//Getty ImagesA crowd gathers in Times Square to celebrate Germany's surrender and the end of World War I.
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Bettmann//Getty ImagesThousands of people line Fifth Avenue as infantry soldiers returning home from World War I march through the city.
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Buyenlarge//Getty ImagesA frozen Westside Market during a February snowstorm doesn't stop New Yorkers from visiting by horse and cart.
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General Photographic Agency//Getty ImagesThe Flatiron Building, built in 1902, stands at the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue.
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Photo 12//Getty ImagesAn aerial view of the New York City skyline in 1922. At this time, the tallest building in the city was the Woolworth Building (back center) and the city's ports were heavily used, just as they are today.
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FPG//Getty ImagesA horse parks in front of the house where President James Monroe died 92 years earlier, located on the corner of Prince and Lafayette.
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FPG//Getty ImagesA group of immigrants in the Ellis Island processing center await the next step toward starting a new life in America.
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Hulton Archive//Getty ImagesThe intersection of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue at the foot of the New York Public Library.
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Bettmann//Getty ImagesMagician Harry Houdini attempts to escape from a straitjacket while hanging upside down over the intersection of Broadway and 46th Street.
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Hulton Archive//Getty ImagesThe magnificent ceiling in the Roxy Theater lobby undergoes construction and renovations.
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Fine Art//Getty ImagesA couple takes a stroll through the fairgrounds at Coney Island.
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Bettmann//Getty ImagesHordes of bankers, industrial executives, and government officials flock to the New York Stock Exchange as the nation's stock prices plummeted in the crash of 1929.
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GettyAn aerial view of the newly-built Empire State Building that stands over Manhattan from 1,250 feet high. It remained the world's tallest tower until 1972, when the World Trade Center took the title.
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GettyConstruction workers eat their lunch atop a steel beam, 800 feet above the ground, at the building site of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center.
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GettyJ.P. Morgan & Co. stands like a fortress on corner of Broad and Wall Street.
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GettyA striking view of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue between 50th Street and 51st Street, unobstructed by the buildings erected around it in future years.
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