Thread: Vintage New York blizzards.

In the photo below, Fifth Avenue under snow, in 1905.
Children with sleds in Central Park, 1905.
Times Square in 1947.
Cars covered in snow, in 1917.
Fifth Avenue in 1926.
“Storm Played No Favorites with Men or Beasts,” an editor wrote in 1914 as part of a winter-misery photo spread titled “New Yorkers Playthings in the Blizzard’s Grip.”
February 4, 1936.
23rd Street and Flatiron Building, circa 1905.
Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Wood share a steamy kiss on a snowy park bench outside New York City's Municipal Building, 1947.
A family heads down Park Avenue via dog sled during the winter, 1947.
A mother tries to shield her baby in Central Park, 1964.
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1983.
Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 1926.
He just got tired of shoveling snow.
Third Avenue.
Times Square, 1936.

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