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Opening of LaGuardia Airport, Queens, NYC, October 15, 1939.
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June 10,1945. Ticker-tape parade celebrating V-E day with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Manhattan, NYC.
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New York City Mayor La Guardia cuts the tape to open the new IND 6th Avenue subway at West 34th Street, in 1940.
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New York City Mayor La Guardia fights a tired Tammany Hall tiger in his successful quest for a 2nd term, 1937.
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New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia taking the ax to slot machines, 1937.
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Five Pointz artists studios offer legal graffiti space in Long Island City, Queens, 2008.
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Mural by Kindred McLeary, 1937-39, at the East 23rd Street Post Office, New York City.
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Aerial view of Fort Greene Houses, Brooklyn, 1946.
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Children playing in the nursery at South Jamaica Houses in Queens, 1940.
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Jackie Robinson dedicates a playground at Fort Greene Houses in Brooklyn, 1959.
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NYCHA board member Frank Crosswaith presents Mr. and Mrs. Eddie L. Riley with the key to their new apartment at Lincoln Houses, East Harlem, 1947.
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Backyards of tenements that were replaced to make way for Amsterdam Houses on the west side of Manhattan, 1941.
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Gildo Spadoni painting the trylon for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
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LaGuardia Community College/CUNY students in science lab, circa 2006.
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City College students studying in the library, circa 1900.
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Student studying at City College, 1972.
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William Hallet Greene, the first African American graduate of City College, 1884.
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Latino festival in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York, 1996.
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Kosher meat market on the Lower East Side of New York, circa 1958.
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Children playing sandlot baseball in East Harlem, 1951, on the site of the soon-to-be-built public housing, Jefferson Houses.
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A police officer directs a horse-drawn wagon, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 1954.
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Postcard depicting New York's City Hall and the newly opened City Hall subway station, 1904.
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Street performers, Venice Beach, L.A., 2004.
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Fruit and vegetable store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, circa 1956, bulldozed to build the 1964 public housing, Samuel Gompers Houses.
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New York's master builder Robert Moses with a model of his proposed but never-built Brooklyn Battery Bridge, 1939. In its stead, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was constructed.
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Robert F. Wagner (second from right, middle row) was coach of the City College of New York baseball team, 1899. Later he became Senator from New York (1927-49).
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Rand Tea and Coffee Store in Manhattan's San Juan Hill neighborhood, March 3,1941. It was razed to build public housing, the 1948 Amsterdam Houses.
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Dedication of LaGuardia Community College/CUNY in 1970: Fred Burkhardt, Marie La Guardia, Joseph Shenker, college president, and Judge Gene Canudo.