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Proud New Yorker Julian Boilen has put together a wonderful interactive map that displays photographs of every building within the five boroughs of New York City that were taken between the years 1939 and 1941 by workers with the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Tax Department.
This photographic count was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s New Deal to find a way to get 8.5 million unemployed Americans back to work after The Great Depression. The physical photo collecion is housed at the New York Ciy Municipal Archives.
In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map.
Financial District, Manhattan
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Bronx
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Garment District, Manhattan
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Newtown Creek, Queens
Upper West Side, Manhattan
via Paul Stamatiou
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