We posted this piece to please that New York archivist in all of us – you will see images of the watering holes preferred by the high and the low, the museums, Greenwich Village, Harlem, the Fulton Fish Market and a good deal more.


The article was written in that wonderfully irreverent slang-heavy patois so reminiscent of the movies from that era.


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