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This is an interior view of the new 8th Avenue subway car in New York City, May 1937. (AP Photo)

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This aerial view of New York City shows Yankee Stadium, right, in the Bronx and the Polo Grounds, upper left, in Manhattan separated by the Harlem River on Sept. 25, 1936. The bridge in the foreground is open for river traffic. Along the right bank of the river are the New York Central tracks. (AP Photo/Joe Caneva)

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Construction workers line up for pay beside the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York in 1931. The Christmas tree went on to become an annual tradition and a New York landmark. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible in the background on Fifth Avenue. (AP Photo)

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This general view shows New York's Central Park as horse-drawn carriages take passengers past Ginko trees and people sit on benches near midtown Manhattan where highrisers border the park on May 12, 1944. (AP Photo)

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The Pennsylvania Railroad's new modernized streamlined Broadway Limited train is shown as it makes a special run for invited guests from Chicago, Ill, June 7, 1938. The train will be placed in regular service between Chicago and New York City June 15. (AP Photo)

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People crowd outside New York's Paramount Theater on Broadway and 43rd St. to attend a screening of "Hitler's Children" on March 7, 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi)

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The 3rd Ave El train travels across the elevated tracks along 51 Street in New York City on Feb. 21, 1942. (AP Photo)

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The new Empire State Express train makes its test run through Breakneck Mountain along the Hudson River, N.Y., on Nov. 24, 1941. The New York Central Railroad Company is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Empire State Express train with an overhauled new streamlined stainless steel train, which will make its debut on Dec. 7. The exterior design is by Henry Dreyfuss. (AP Photo)

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Construction workers take a lunch break on a steel beam atop the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York, Sept. 29, 1932. In the background is the Chrysler Building. (AP Photo)

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Official motorcades start across the George Washington Bridge during the dedication ceremonies in New York City on Oct. 24, 1931. The world's longest suspension bridge, costing $60 million, links New York with New Jersey. (AP Photo)

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Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, Oct. 4, 1937. They are picketing because the shop's proprietor refuses to close and join their "stoppage strike" in protest against high meat prices. Owners of 500 shops kept their doors closed. (AP Photo)

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People line in Times Square and 43rd Street to recieve sandwiches and a cup of coffee in New York City on Dec. 8, 1930 during the Great Depression. (AP Photo)

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The 50th anniversary of the New York Times Tower, Times Square, New York City, 1921. (AP Photo)

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This is a file photo of Times Square area near 42nd Street in New York City. This photo is circa 1920s. (AP Photo/files)

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This is a general view of the British cargo and passenger ship Lusitania as it sets out for England on its last voyage from New York City on May 1, 1915. The British ocean liner was sunk off Ireland on May 7 by a German U-Boat, killing 1,150 people, 114 of them Americans. (AP Photo)

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The main registry building on Ellis Island is shown in this 1905 photo. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, May 26, 1998, that Ellis Island is mostly in New Jersey, ordering New York to share bragging rights to the nation's gateway for millions of immigrants. New York can lay claim to only part of the island's 27.5 acres, said the justices in a 6-3 ruling. (AP Photo)

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This is a general view of lower Manhattan on Broadway in New York City in 1921. (AP Photo)

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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange are seen during the last trading session at the Broad Street location, before locating to the market's expanded Wall Street quarters in 1903. (AP Photo)

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A portrait of the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 59th Street, in New York City in 1926. (AP Photo)

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This is an aerial view of the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the East River in New York City, 1923. The bridge measures 6,016 feet from one end to the other, including approaches. To accomodate the passage of ships, the clearance at the center of the bridge rises to 135 feet, a height that became standard for bridge construction. The bridge was opened to traffic on May 24, 1883. Part of the Manhattan Bridge can be seen at top left in Brooklyn. (AP Photo)

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New York City celebrates the arrival of amateur golfer Bobby Jones, sitting up in backseat of first open car, with his second ticker-tape parade up Broadway in lower Manhattan on July 2, 1930. Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., won the British Open and British Amateur golf championships. (AP Photo)

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A steel worker rests on a girder at the 86th floor of the new Empire State Building during construction in New York City, Sept. 24, 1930. The tower of the Chrysler Building can be seen in background, left. (AP Photo)

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The Empire State Building in New York City is shown on September 19, 1930, just after the steel work was completed. When finished, the new landmark building will be the tallest in the world. (AP Photo)

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The main cable of the George Washington Bridge is being layed as construction of the suspension bridge connecting New York and New Jersey continues on Oct. 23, 1929. (AP Photo)

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This aerial view shows the intersection of 50th St. and Sixth Ave. in New York City after the New York Mets won the World Series Championship against the Baltimore Orioles on Oct. 16, 1969. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

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Two unemployed street vendors try to earn a living selling apples on the streets in New York City on Nov. 30, 1930 during the Depression. (AP Photo)

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This is a general view of the exterior of Grand Central Station in New York City in 1909. (AP Photo)

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This general view shows Times Square at W. 46th St., with the neon Coca-Cola sign in background, in New York City in the 1930s. (AP Photo)

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The landmark Christmas tree at New York's Rockefeller Plaza stands out Dec. 26, 1947 as a few hardy pedestrians make their way through the snow drifts of one of the heaviest winter storms in years. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

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The statue erected to "Balto" and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an Arctic blizzard and over treacherous ice and snow, is covered in snow in New York's Central Park, Dec. 11, 1947. (AP Photo)

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A pedestrian walks between drifts of snow in Times Square in New York City, Dec. 27, 1947, following the record-breaking snowfall of the day before. This view looks south on Broadway with the Times Building in the center background. (AP Photo)

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A construction worker relaxes during his lunch break on a steel beam atop the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York, in Sept. 29, 1932. In the background is Central Park, with the Esssex Hotel at center. (AP Photo)

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More than 50,000 baseball fans crowded Yankee Stadium, New York, to watch the Yankees beat the Cincinnati Reds Oct. 4, 1939 in a World Series opener. The Yankees won, 2-1. (AP Photo)

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A long line of jobless and homeless men wait outside to get free dinner at New York's municipal lodging house in the winter of 1932-33 during the Great Depression. (AP Photo)

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The new Twentieth Century Limited is shown on a press run between Harmon and Beacon, N.Y., on Sept. 9, 1948. The new trains, streamlined and equipped for luxurious rail travel, are built by Pullman-Standard and cost $2,000,000 each. (AP Photo)

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This aerial view shows Yankee Stadium where more than 73,000 fans watch the opening game of the 1947 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees in the Subway Series on Sept. 30. The crowd is the largest in world series history. (AP Photo)

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Three New Jersey routes converge at the Ft. Lee Plaza roadway where people are gathered for dedication ceremonies of the George Washington Bridge on Oct. 24, 1931. The new Hudson River bridge, which connects New Jersey and New York City, will open to traffic on Oct. 25. (AP Photo)

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Construction workers apply a coat of protective covering on the huge cable supports of the George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River, in New York City, June 12, 1935. (AP Photo)

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Aerial view of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers played before almost 35,000 fans in the third game of the World Series on Oct. 4, 1941. The Yankees won by a score of 2-1. (AP Photo)

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People gather at the new Wollman Memorial ice skating rink for opening ceremonies in Central Park near East 64th St., in New York City, Dec. 21, 1950. The buildings surrounding part of the rink, background, house facilities for the skaters, including dressing rooms, food concession, skate shop and playground. The building on the hill is the Dairy. Kate Wollman donated $600,000 for the $750,000 rink in memory of her family, of which she is the last surviving member. (AP Photo)

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Signs, billboards and theater marquees light up New York's Times Square in 1947. (AP Photo)

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Youngsters get a birds eye view of the boardwalk from the Ferris Wheel, Coney Island, New York, August 14, 1948. (AP Photo)

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New York's Grand Central's main concourse is seen on December 14, 1941, during the opening ceremonies of a government mural above the mezzanine level, dedicated to encourage Americans to buy savings bonds and stamps in support of the war. (AP Photo)

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An Aug.19, 1940 photo of the "Tweed Courthouse" building in City Hall Park in New York City. (AP Photo)

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Times Square, amusement hub of New York City, was mass confusion September 19, 1937, when convening American Legionnaires tied up traffic with their high-jinks. Above, a veteran sits smack in the middle of traffic. The sit-downer refuses to budge, come what may. (AP Photo)

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This is an aerial view of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center and its environs in New York City on July 4, 1937. People can be seen on the observation deck atop the RCA building. St. Patrick's Cathedral is at top center along Fifth Ave. The complex, constructed between 1931-39 during the Great Depression, was first named Radio City. (AP Photo)

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Manhattan's West Side Express elevated public highway is seen looking north from 60th Street in New York, Sept. 23, 1937. Railroad yards are to the right, with the Hudson River in the background, left. (AP Photo/stf)

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Men line up in front of City Hall to apply for jobs cleaning away snow in New York City on Jan. 3, 1934 during the Great Depression. A sign attached to the parked snow-removal truck reads, "Laborers Wanted." (AP Photo)

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This is a photo of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Broadway in New York City on Nov. 30, 1933. (AP Photo)

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This is a photo of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Broadway in New York City on Nov. 30, 1933. (AP Photo)

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