Some superb old images.

Click the image for the article.

It’s an image worthy of Manet at his finest, at once realistic and impressionistic in its rendering.

The New York Times has started digitizing all its images back to inception in 1851. Early fruit of its labors is on show in the linked article – click the image above – and is from pre-WW1 New York City, and while the photographers are unknown the images are startling in their beauty and immediacy. And yes, I can confirm that the crossing at Broadway on the north side of the Flatiron Building is still windy as heck to this day.