Once In A Lifetime Sights From The New York Police Photo Archives (10 pics)

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Soon 30,000 photos taken from the New York City Municipal Archives will be available online. Many of them were taken between 1920 and 1960 and there are some interesting sights in there, things that you definitely don't see everyday. Here's a preview.

Gun with brass knuckles & a knife, 1939



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Doll on the bed of Virginia Bender at East 137th Street in the Bronx, 1939


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Murder of Vincenzo Argo at 35 Thompson Street in Manhattan, October 12, 1925


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Murder victim Dominick Didato on Elizabeth Street, 1936


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Books deemed ” indecent ” are burned in the headquarters of the police


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Explosion at a metro station in the city of Pennsylvania, 1955


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Streetcar that jumped the tracks at Nostrand & Putnam avenues, July, 1931


10 Once In A Lifetime Sights From The New York Police Photo Archives (10 pics)

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№1 Author: Tomaz86 (31 Mar 2015 16:02) Total user comments: 10834


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Great pics.
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№2 Author: LewisJones (31 Mar 2015 17:04) Total user comments: 2206


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very interesting, post all these type threads more often. Also it's the captions that really make these. Great job. :04:
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№3 Author: gssgfgfs (1 Apr 2015 00:22) Total user comments: 0


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1) Don't the knife and gun point in the wrong way if you use the knuckles?
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