Lower Manhattan shape-square like this one at the

like this one at the 62nd street playground in Central Park taken by Times staff photographer Eddie Hausner

This glimpse south from the Empire State Building showed a city shrouded in acrid

Eleni’s illustrations are regularly featured in publications such as The New York Times

Pete preferred a mouthful of hay and three heads of cabbage to a cake and candles

The statue was the result of a collaboration between French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi

Lower Manhattan shape-square like this one at theThis aerial image captures lower Manhattan when the tip of the island was scored with piers and dotted with old buildings. The area, however, was on the eve of evolution. "Much of lower Manhattan where New York was born and began the expansion that has made it the nation's largest and wealthiest city, will be dramatically transformed with projects now under construction or planned are completed," The Times wrote April 17, 1963. This photo was