Photos from a Trip to New York in August 1967

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. – John Steinbeck

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

John Atherton

New York City 1967

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir

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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

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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

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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.

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NYC during a heavy rainstorm

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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

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August 1967

New York City John Atherton

August 1967

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View of Central Park from a Helicopter on the way from the top of the Pan Am building, August 1967

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From the top of the Pan-Am building. August 1967

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JFK Airport, New York 1967

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August 1967

John Atherton

New York City 1967

All photos courtesy of John Atherton on Flickr.

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