Photo taken from the website
One of the archival photos uploaded by New York City Hall.
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New York City Hall has opened its archives to the general public, now offering some 870,000 photos, maps and various documents on the Internet, retracing 160 years of the city’s history.
The success of this new site (www.nyc.gov/records) was such that a few hours after its official launch, it was inaccessible Wednesday morning, “because of too much demand,” said the town hall.
Fans of New York buildings and bridges will be delighted. Among the 25 collections available, one includes the color photo of each of the buildings in New York, taken in the 80s.
A second brings together a selection of more than 15,000 photos taken by photographer Eugene de Salignac at the start of the 20th century, employed by the bridge service from 1906 to 1934 to immortalize the bridges, roads and constructions in progress at the time.
Also available are some 1,300 black and white photos from the time of the Great Depression, a variety of drawings of Central Park, some criminal case photos taken by the police, thousands of snapshots of everyday life in New York at through the ages, maps, audio documents …
The oldest photograph in this digital archive dates from 1858.
These archives will be the honey of researchers and historians, and the happiness of many lovers of the city, who can share them on social networks, and order paper versions directly on the site.
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