Re: OT Photographic survey of New York

2018-12-31 Thread Stanley Halpin
Thanks for the story link Dan, I had missed this. The Times presentation is a then-and-now story. What I would like to know is how I can find and retrieve the shot of my mother-in-law’s family residence on 42nd St… I found and viewed the location a few years ago via Google Street View but the

OT Photographic survey of New York

2018-12-29 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate. The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots of everything from fashionable apartment buildings in