Christmas Party at the NYSE, 1885

Christmas carnival in the New York Stock Exchange, 1885.
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I imagine the atmosphere on the floor is quite different in 2008!

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art

Who doesn't love art class??

Queens Community Art Center: students in painting class, 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.
Berenice Abbott: Photographer. 1939.

Queensboro Commmunity Art Center: students in sculpture class, 36-76 Roosevelt
Berenice Abbott: Photographer. 1939.

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Springtime

NYC Parks are getting very crowded at lunchtime! They don't look too different from these scenes:

Bryant Park, 40th St. and 6th Ave. 1935

Bryant Park, 40th St. and 6th Ave. 1935

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It's about that time

Spring training time, that is! Click to enlarge!

New grounds of the Metropolitan Baseball Club on Staten Island. 1882.

Mets Spring Training

Yankees Spring Training

Yankee Stadium, n.d

Any players you'll miss? Any you're glad to see going?

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Politics as usual

A New York politician's reception. 1872.
Artist: William John Hennessy

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Snapshots from Broadway

Looking down Broadway, 1922.
Broadway at St. Paul's Church from the same point as shown on opposite page.
St. Paul's is at the right in each picture.
From Book of New York, privately printed for American Bankers Association
forty-eighth annual convention, October 2-6, 1922.

I'd rather be on old Broadway with you / words by Geo. H. Norton ; music by Sheppard Camp.
Sheet music, 1909.

I'd rather be on old Broadway with you. Vocal score 1909.

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Bowery, 1903

The Bowery, Rockaway, N.Y. 1903.
Detroit Photographic Co.: Photographer

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Trolley, 1938

Old Post Office with Trolley - II, Park Row and Broadway, Manhattan. 1938
Berenice Abbott: Photographer

Read more about the NYC trolleys at Forgottten-NY.com!

Some of the NYC high muckety-mucks want to charge $8 to drive into Manhattan below 86th St.

I think they should make most of midtown a pedestrian area!

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Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream

Little Johnny Jones

You don't think you know the 1904 hit musical "Little Johnny Jones," but really you do.

Little Johnny Jones. Give my regards to Broadway. Sheet music, 1904.
Vocal score: Give my regards to Broadway / [words and music by] Geo. M. Cohan.

Verse 1

Did you ever see two Yankees part upon a foreign shore
When the good ship is just about to start for Old New York once more?
With tear-dimmed eye they say goodbye, they're friends without a doubt;
When the man on the pier shouts loud and clear, as the ship strikes out...

Verse 2

Say hello to dear old Coney Isle, if there you chance to be,
When you're at the Waldorf 1 have a "smile" 2 and charge it up to me;
Mention my name ev'ry place you go, as 'round the town you roam;
Wish you'd call on my gal, now remember, old pal, when you get back home...

Chorus

Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to Herald Square,
Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street, that I will soon be there;
Whisper of how I'm yearning to mingle with the old time throng;
Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be there ere long.

Little Johnny Jones pamphlet. 1907.

Synopsis: Johnny Jones (George M. Cohan), an American jockey, is accused of throwing the English Derby by Anstey (Jerry Cohan). His soon to be sweetheart Goldie (Ethel Levey) follows him to London with her lawyer (Donald Brian). While in London she disguises herself as a man, fooling both Jones and her Aunt (Nellie Cohan), hoping to discover if Jones really loves her. In the end, Jones is vindicated of the charges and marries Goldie.

A French girl from Paris, that's funny.
"The cast is immense
the chorus divine
and the music! Go hear it;
it sparkles like wine."
Little Johnny Jones pamphlet. 1907.

Little Johnny Jones also featured "The Yankee Doodle Boy."

Verse 1

I'm the kid that's all the candy,
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
I'm glad I am,
So's Uncle Sam.
I'm a real live Yankee Doodle,
Made my name and fame and boodle,
Just like Mister Doodle did, by riding on a pony.
I love to listen to the Dixie strain,
I long to see the girl I left behind me;
That ain't a josh,
She's a Yankee, by gosh.
Oh, say can you see,
Anything about a Yankee that's a phony?

Verse 2

Father's name was Hezikiah,
Mother's name was Ann Maria,
Yanks through and through.
Red, White and Blue
Father was so Yankee-hearted,
When the Spanish war was started,
He slipped on a uniform and hopped upon a pony.
My mother's mother was a Yankee true,
My father's father was a Yankee too:
That's going some,
For the Yankees, by gum.
Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phony?

Chorus

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
A Yankee Doodle, do or die;
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's,
Born on the Fourth of July.
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart,
She's my Yankee Doodle joy.
Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies;
I am the Yankee Doodle Boy.

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