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
Doll on the bed of Virginia Bender at East 137th Street in the Bronx, 1939
Murder of Vincenzo Argo at 35 Thompson Street in Manhattan, October 12, 1925
Murder victim Dominick Didato on Elizabeth Street, 1936
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Books deemed ” indecent ” are burned in the headquarters of the police
Explosion at a metro station in the city of Pennsylvania, 1955
Streetcar that jumped the tracks at Nostrand & Putnam avenues, July, 1931