1940s New York City

Broadway & 44th St. on 26 February 1940; Loew's Criterion is showing 'The man from Dakota' with Wallace Reed & Dolores del Rio. 

7th Avenue & 43rd St. in the 1940s.

Times Square with 44th Street, 1943. 

Secret platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that were used by VIPs like Franklin Delano Roosevelt when in New York City. It had a private lift which connected it with the hotel.

Man reads NYC paper: Nazis 75 miles from Paris; 1940.

Ron Rayher wrote at FB: A clearer photo would reveal that photograph was taken on 18 May 1940, based on headlines. He is on the SW corner of 6th Avenue and W 40th Street. Bryant Park is just out of view. The headline of the paper reads: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris."

Ron Rayher writes to Lynne Funk on FB: Park is between 40th and 42nd. So we are looking south. Photographer was standing on NW corner. So this is the SW corner.

John W. Gray wrote on FB: the 6th Ave El had only been removed in 1939; otherwise the intersection would have looked much different.

Neil Gleit wrote on FB: Sixth Ave was a two-way-street until 1957.

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RKO Palace on 1564 Broadway (at West 47th St.) shows 'Moon over Miami' with Don Ameche which premiered 18 June 1941.

March 1943 - 'The hard way' with Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie opened on 20 February 1943.

March 1943 - Walt Disney's 'Saludos, amigos' showing at the Globe, opened on 19 February 1943. Its world premiere was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 24 August 1942. 

Lower Manhattan in 1941, after a fall of snow.

Lower East Side 1942.

Ronald Colman & Marlene Dietrich in MGM's 'Kismet' which opened on 22nd August 1944, at the Astor Theatre on Broadway & 45th Street. 

'Three is a family' premiered on 23rd November 1944.

same photo a little more encompassing... 

Hitchcock's 'Spellbound' w Ingrid Bergman & Gregory Peck released on 28 December 1945.

Times Square 1947.

Broadway & 44th Street with a view of the Astor Hotel in 1947.

5th Avenue & 45th St. in 1946.

34th St. from 8th Avenue in 1942.

Broadway & 46th St. in 1946. 

Broadway towards 50th St. 'Two years before the mast' was released in November 1946.

50th St. looking towards 6th Avenue in 1946.

Times Square in the summer of 1947. 

'Calcutta' with Alan Ladd opens on the Paramount on 23rd April 1947; in person Duke Ellington & his Orchestra.

Times Square, December 1947.

December 1947. 

Theatre man Harry Lester strolls Times Square with his daughter in 1947. 

7th Avenue & 46th St. in 1948.

Strand on Broadway, 1948. 

Strand Theatre at 47th St & Broadway in 1948. 

Broadway towards 45th St. in 1948; Ethel Merman at the Imperial Theatre with 'Annie get your guns'.

5th Avenue & 42nd St. in 1949.

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in 'The Berkleys of Broadway' at Loew's...  1949.

Coming soon to Loew's State, at 1540 Broadway, was 'Quo Vadis' which would open on 8 November 1951; 'The Berkleys of Broadway' with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers opened on 4 May 1949; on the right side of photo The Strand (Broadway just below 47th Street) showed 'Night unto night' with Ronald Reagan & Viveca Lindfors release on 10 June 1949, an early Don Siegel movie. 

on the roof of the Condé Nast building on Lexington Avenue in 1949. 

On the screen Glenn Ford & Nina Foch in 'The undercover man' which opened at the Paramount on 20 April 1949; live on stage Duke Ellington & Band with Billy Eckstine as an extra attraction.

Graham Greene's 'The 3rd Man' plays at the Victoria in 1949.

a misty Times Square in 1949.

On 5th Avenue nexto to Saint Patrick's on 8 September 1949.