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June 29, 2024

New York in the Early 1960s Through Fascinating Photos

Before the recession of 1969 helped send New York spiraling into an era of drugs, poverty, and violence, the city had one last decade of mid-century glory, at least on the surface. New York in the 1960s was a city full of life and diversity, from the executives of Madison Avenue to the artists of the East Village – but it was also a time of turmoil.

Throughout the 1960s, a new wave of immigrants was starting to move in. As American immigration laws relaxed and white residents moved out to the suburbs, New York City was turning into a multicultural metropolis unlike the world had ever seen. Meanwhile, early LGBT communities were starting to form in Greenwich Village and fight, for the first time, for their rights. By the end of the decade, on June 28, 1969, the LGBT demonstrators of the Stonewall Riots stood up against police oppression and launched the modern gay right’s movement as we know it today.

Across the decade as a whole, people all over New York—and elsewhere—were fighting for change. New York in the 1960s saw countless strikes and protests. And, sometimes, protest boiled over into violence. This was far from New York’s only moment of upheaval during this tumultuous decade. As much as the 1960s was a time of vibrancy, culture, and wealth, it was also a time when little cracks started to slip into the background of daily life, usually left unnoticed, warning of the collapse to come.

These fascinating photos were found by Found Slides that show New York’s scenes in 1961.

Top of RCA Building, Queensboro Bridge in the distance, New York, 1961

5th Ave. at 50th St., New York, 1961

5th Ave. at 50th St., New York, 1961

Battery Park, New York, 1961

Battery Park, New York, 1961

Battery Park, New York, 1961

Central Park from RCA Building, New York, 1961

Central Park yachtsmen, New York, 1961

Chrysler Building, Welfare Island, UN Building from Empire State, New York, 1961

From top of RCA Building, New York, 1961

Looking at Slattler Hilton from Empire State 6.30 p.m, New York, 1961

Looking NE from Empire State, New York, 1961

Looking North from RCA Building, New York, 1961

Lower End of Manhattan from Ferry, New York, 1961

Lower Manhattan from Ferry, New York, 1961

Lower Manhattan at Hudson, New York, 1961

Lower Manhattan from bow of ferry, New York, 1961

Lower Manhattan, New York, 1961

Lower Manhattan, New York, 1961

Manhattan at night 7 p.m, New York, 1961

Midtown looking NE from RCA Building, New York, 1961

Midtown Manhattan, Hudson River, New York, 1961

Midtown, Hudson River and Weehawken, New York, 1961

New York City at night, 1961

Statue of Liberty from Staten Island Ferry, New York, 1961

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