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Vintage photos show what it was like to live in New York City 100 years ago

August 19, 20240
An aeriel view of downtown Manhattan from the 1920s features an elevated train track, a much wider Battery Park, and the South Ferry Terminal.

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  • New York City was the epicenter of cultural and economic growth 100 years ago.
  • In the 1920s, jazz clubs, flapper fashion, and artists like Langston Hughes grew popular.
  • This era also faced Prohibition, anti-immigration sentiments, and poor working conditions.

The only constant in New York City is — and has always been — change. From its early days as a breadbasket colony to the technologically advanced was home to writers such as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Alexander Woollcott, and many more. and materialism crumbled once the stock market crashed at the turn of the decade.