To create our video about New York City’s role as a catalyst for groundbreaking practices and cultural movements, we curated a range of images from the past and present, taken from all around the five boroughs. These photographs capture and celebrate NYC’s past, present and future as a foundry of innovation and influence. Visit business.nyctourism.com to explore the City’s enduring contributions that shaped our nation and affirmed this country's place in the world.
Wall Street. Photo: Tagger Yancey IV
Inauguration of Washington. Lithograph: Curier and Ives
Cold Crush Brothers at the Dixie Club during filming of Wild Style, 1981. Photo: Joe Conzo
Manhattan Island in the sixteenth century. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Suffragists marching, New York City, 1915. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970. Photo: Diana Davies. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Stonewall Inn, 1969. Photo: Diana Davies. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Pride March. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
NYC Pride weekend. Photo: Robert Andy Coombs
Albro Lyons Sr and Mary Joseph Lyons. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Bridge Street A. W. M. E. Church. Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, 1931, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
Arriving at Ellis Island. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Mulberry Street. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Representative Shirley Chisholm at the Democratic National Convention, NYC. Photo: W. K. Leffler. Courtesy, Library of Congress
The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1948. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
Travelers' Green Book: 1963–64 International Edition. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
Apollo Theater. Photo: Willian P Gottlieb. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Side view of Statue of Liberty. Photo: Pond 5
The Empire State Building. Photo: Angelo A. Rizzuto. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Times Square Postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Manhattan skyline. Photo: Matthew Papa
Times Square. Photo: Lucia Vazquez
Still from Hamilton B-Roll Video
Stephanie Jae Park, Ta'Rea Campbell and Paige Smallwood on stage for Hamilton. Photo: Joan Marcus
Children in the summer. Photo: Roger Smith. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Puerto Rican Day Parade. Photo: David 'Dee' Delgado
Courtesy, New York Yankees
Construction men at work in great steel frame of Metropolitan Tower. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Fraunces Tavern. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Statue of Liberty. Courtesy, Library of Congress
The Plaza Hotel. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Green-Wood Cemetery. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Brooklyn Bridge Promenade. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Lower East Side. Courtesy, Library of Congress
South Street and Brooklyn Bridge. Courtesy, Library of Congress
New York and Brooklyn Map. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Couple in Harlem. Photo: James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Darned Club": Alice Austen (left) and three friends. Photo: Alice Austen. Collection of Historic Richmond Town
McSorley's Old Ale House. Photo: Berenice Abbott. Courtesy, Museum of the City of New York
Chef Kwame Onwuachi of Tatiana. Courtesy, Baltz and Company
Diners at Delmonico's. Courtesy, Tucci Family Archives
Courtesy, Katz's Deli
Oyster stand. Photo: Thomas H. McAllister, Museum of the City of New York
Courtesy, The Halal Guys
Frederick Van Cortlandt Mansion. Photo: Arnold Moses. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Yankee Stadium, 1925. Photo: Arnold Moses. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Grand Army Plaza. Photo: Tagger Yancey IV
Luna Park. Photo: Irving Underhill. Courtesy, Library of Congress
CBGB, 1977. Photo: David Godlis
Fifth Avenue. Photo: Matthew Papa
7 Line Subway. Photo: Daniel Harel
Flushing, Queens. Photo: Elizabeth Bick
Historic Richmond Town. Photo: Gabby Jones
Lower Manhattan aerial view. Courtesy, NY Municipal Archives
Panoramic aerial view of Lower Manhttan. Photo: iStock
Aerial view of NYC. Photo: iStock
High Bridge Croton Waterworks Postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Ellis Island Postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Queensboro Bridge Postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Broadway Postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
The Mall, Central Park postcard. Courtesy, New York Public Library
Brooklyn Bridge and New York Skyline Postcard. Courtesy, NYPL
Still from "New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no.2," 1899. Video: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, Paper Print Collection and Niver; James H. White (production). Courtesy, Library of Congress
Tats Cru, Mott Haven mural. Photo: Kyle Deitz
Debi Mazar. Photo: Lisa Leone
Marti Gould Cummings. Photo: Jen Davis
Rockefeller Center at Christmas. Photo: Will Steacy
John F. Kennedy International Airport rendering. Courtesy, PANYNJ
Moynihan Train Hall. Photo: Julienne Schaer
Brooklyn Bridge, 1898. Photo: George P. Hall & Son. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Brooklyn Bridge. Photo: Gabby Jones
Chinatown. Photo: Elizabeth Bick
Chinatown, 1900. Photo: Byron. Courtesy, Library of Congress
1964 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Photo: Roger Higgins. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Unisphere. Photo: Kate Glicksberg
Grand Central Terminal, 1959. Photo: Anthony Angel. Courtesy, Library of Congress
Grand Central Terminal. Photo: Matthew Papa
The West Side Line (now the High Line). Photo: Archive of Industry
The High Line. Photo: Brittany Petronella
Little Island. Photo: Natasha Gornik and Jason Robinette
SS Carpathia. Courtesy, Library of Congress
New Year's Eve, Times Square. Photo: Julienne Schaer
Fireworks on July 4, 1976. Photo: Associated Press
Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks. B-roll by Kadeem Huggins