Two New Historic Image Collections: More of Carole Teller's Changing New York, 1960s-1990s and Meatpacking District Above 14th Street/Chelsea Market/High Line Before Transformation

GVSHP is proud to add two new collections to our historic image archivecontaining over 300 images, capturing not only our neighborhoods’ past, but Times Square, Chinatown, Little Italy, and more.

Carole Teller’s Changing New York, 1960s-1990s Part 4 is our latest installment of images from the personal collection of East Village artist Carole Teller. Last year when we shared the first batch of Carole’s images with the world, it was an international sensation, garnering coverage not only across the country but around the globe. We have been gradually unearthing and identifying hundreds more of her images, which contain a remarkable record of how our city has both stayed the same and changed over the last half-century.

In this latest installment of her collection, you’ll not only see street scenes from Washington Square to Avenue B, but a Times Square you may barely recognize, a pre-restoration South Street Seaport, Penn Station being demolished, and Chinatown and Little Italy in simpler times. Dive into the new collection here, and explore Part I, Part II, and Part III of her collection, as well as her incredible images of the filming of the Godfather Part II on the streets of the East Village, where 1973 New York City is made over to look like 1917 Little Italy.

Prints of all these and most other images in our archive are available for sale benefitting GVSHP.

Meatpacking District Above 14th Street/Chelsea Market/High Line Before Transformation comes from GVSHP’s own photo archives, taken in the early 2000s as part of our advocacy efforts to preserve the Meatpacking District. You’ll see images of a pre-Google Chelsea Market, and a pre-restoration High Line, as well as dozens of buildings between 14th and 17th Streets on the Far West Side, some of which have since received glamorous makeovers, others of which have been demolished. Check out the collection here, and for even more images of the Meatpacking District in simpler timers, see our other image archive collections here and here.

Prints of all these and most other images in our archive are available for sale benefitting GVSHP.

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