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The New York City Department of Taxation took photos of every house and shop across the five boroughs between 1939 and 1941, before the U.S. entered WWII, (as well as during the 1980s) and they're available online for anyone to look at. All you need is an address.
Full stack software engineer and NYC resident Julien Boilen created an interactive map at 1940s.nyc that puts all this information in one place. You can scroll across the map and select properties easily.
wow great find buddy this is pure nostalgia! thanks.
tip to find your building quickly in 3 steps:
once you are at NYC Municipal Archives
1) select your year (in my case 1980's bronx)
2) select "Browse all"
3) click advanced search on the left bottom side, first search box "Hint" click the drop down menu select "Building number" and type your building number on the field.
ACTUALLY this is even quicker way: once you are here http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/se...allCollections
just type "building_number=2670" -without the quotes- in the search box top right (substitute 2670 with your building number)
Amazing find. Got lost in it immediately, browsing for an hour! An abundance of gorgeous queen anne victorian style homes back then. How times change..
Is there anyway to find the architects of these homes in city records?
Loved this! The house where I lived in NYC (a brownstone) actually had a shop on the first floor! I was quite surprised given the fact that I always say that all my life I've "lived over the shop!" so it's nice to see that even the place I lived in was "over a shop". Work follows me wherever I go.
I had gotten the tax picture of my building a while ago, it was 65.00, but it is large, and so cool.
the hedges are gone now, a brick and wrought iron fence is here now,
we obviously now have new windows, but the old ones had the muttons on the top half.
the huge awning over the doors are gone.
The 4 houses next door to the right,have long been razed and there is a huge apartment building that was built in the 60's, I think.
The house next door to the left, had some sort of portico, I think, over the doors, they are gone.
hardly any cars parked on the block, OMG, i wish....
A very good find indeed Aeran! I already know what I'm doing this evening.
My building looks the same but with no double parked cars on the street.
You can see (I believe) one of the surveyors in a few photos taken along 125th Street between 5th Ave and Fredrick Douglass Blvd (try 1965 - 53M). Snazzy gent.
Amazing find. Got lost in it immediately, browsing for an hour! An abundance of gorgeous queen anne victorian style homes back then. How times change..
Is there anyway to find the architects of these homes in city records?
What a wonderful resource! When I look and see how beautiful the buildings on my family's block looked in 1940, I am flabbergasted at some of the changes made since that period.
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