After the Storm: New York City in Photos
Compared to much of the state (hello Syracuse and Buffalo), New York City's annual snowfall is nothing to brag about, but most winters bring about a storm or two that dumps enough snow to slow the city down and, every few years, a significant, debilitating blizzard. Let's take a look back at photos of New York after a snowstorm. These photographs, from NYPL's vast Digital Collections, go as far back as 1895 and show some of the delights and challenges that snow brings to the city that never sleeps.
FIRST COMES THE SNOW...
New York City, snowstorm seen from the bus, Third Avenue. Photo © Bedrich Grunzweig - grunzwiegphoto.com. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 57620659
Flatiron corner after snow storm, New York. (1905). Photo by Detroit Photographic Company. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 804863
Fifth Avenue, after a snow storm, New York. (1905). Photo by Detroit Photographic Co. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 809696
NEXT COMES THE FUN!
THEN COMES DIGGING OUT AND SNOW REMOVAL
Cleaning the streets after a snow storm, New York. (1905). NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 809698
Snow removal on Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo by Max Hubacher. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 5817714
State Street in Brooklyn, NY. (1960). Photo by Max Hubacher. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 5667152
INEVITABLY FOLLOWED BY...SLUSH
Scene near Borough Hall in Brooklyn. (1956). Photo by Max Hubacher. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 5667062