1930s New York City

22nd to 23rd January 1935.

Broadway & 46th Street same day at night.

13 February 1932 on Times Square: Poor people queue up for a ration of sandwich & a cup of coffee during the Great Depression.

'Strictly dishonorable' opened on 26 December 1931 at RKO's Mayfair Theatre on Times Square. 

Lower Manhattan seen from the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn Heights, in 1933.

The Empire Estate Bldg seen from the RCA Bldg construction site circa 1933. 

Times Square, 1935. 

Times Square, 1937. 

7th Ave. & 46th St. on 26 July 1934; part of James Cagney's 'Here comes the Navy' was filmed aboard the USS Arizona that was later bombed by the Japanese in Pearl Harbour.

7th Ave. & 45th St. on 11 January 1934; one could see Greta Garbo in 'Queen Christina' at the Astor Theatre or Carole Lombard & Paul Lukas in 'No one man' or Lew Ayres & Mae Clarke in 'Impatient virgin'.

7th Ave. & 43rd Street in 1934 with Paramount Theatre in the background. 

5th Ave. between 50th & 51st Streets - demolition of whole block - former site of Columbia University - to make way for the Rockefeller Center in 1934.

7th Ave. & 31st Street - Pennsylvannia Station in 1936.

Broadway & 46th Street on 13 January 1937.

same photo taken on 13 January 1937 at Times Square. 

Times Square, 13 January 1937; 'Counterfeit lady' was released on 31st December 1936.

Pretzel vendor rests his basket on a Lucky Strike carton box in Battery Park, 28 August 1932.

Empire State Building on 16 October 1930.

Acrobats on top of the world... actually the Empire State Building in the 1930s... 

Queens, 1939.

Rockefeller Center Plaza opened in 1939; photographed by the Wurts Brothers. 

Brochure advertising the 1939 New York World's Fair (April 1939).