If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. – Ellen R. Shapiro
Washington Square Park, New York City, 1967
Photo taken August 29, 1967
New York City 1967
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir
New York City during a heavy rainstorm, 1967
Photo taken August 27, 1967
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. – Dorothy Parker
New York City, in August, 1967
More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. – Marilyn J. Appleberg
NYC during a heavy rainstorm 1967
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. – Le Corbusier
540 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York, 1967 during a heavy rainstorm.
NYC during a heavy rainstorm
Family trying to rescue their partially-submerged car during a heavy rainstorm, New York City, 1967
NYC, August 1967
Washington Square Park, New York City, 1967
Photo taken August 29, 1967
August 1967
August 1967
View of Central Park from a Helicopter on the way from the top of the Pan Am building, August 1967
From the top of the Pan-Am building. August 1967
JFK Airport, New York 1967
August 1967
New York City 1967
All photos courtesy of John Atherton on Flickr.
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