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New York City -- Jan. 13, 1956 -- NIEBUHR -- The Rev. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, author and theologian photographed at his apartment in New York City Janua...

NEW YORK -- March 31, 1990 -- TOWER RECORDS -- Inside the Tower Records store at Broadway and East 4th Street in Manhattan's East Village. ( Fred R. C...

NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 1983 -- TOWER RECORDS -- Shoppers look for records at Tower Records in the East Village on Broadway at 4th Street on November 15,...

NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 1983 -- TOWER RECORDS - - Shoppers Crowd the aisles on Saturday, November 5, 1983, at Tower Records at Broadway and E. 4th Street...

NEW YORK, -- March 26, 1984 -- TRIANGLE BUILDING A service commemorates the 73d anniversary of the Triangle factory fire. On Saturday afternoon, March...

Date: July 28, 1945 A hole was torn between the 78th and 79th floors when a B-25 bomber, flying low in fog, crashed in the Empire State Building. Cr...

Date: February 5, 1948 Caption: THE SNOW GETS TOP BILLING ON BROADWAY: A scene in the Times Square area late yesterday from beneath a theatre marqu...

March 26, 1990: Walter H. Annenberg, publisher, philanthropist, former Ambassador to Britain and art acquisitor photographed at his home in Rancho Mi...

April 7, 1983; Graffiti marring the white paint of an IRT No. 5 train that had been painted with a graffiti-resistant compound. (Carl T. Gossett, Jr....

April 7, 1983; The Lexington Avenue IRT 4 express train covered with graffiti. (Cart T. Gossett, Jr./The New York Times)

April 19, 1972; A Columbia University maintenance man cleaning graffiti off s limestone pillar with special yellow jelly product. (Neal Boenzi/The Ne...

Dec. 10, 1986; Car no. 6321, which, after 897,214 miles was taken out of service. The Graffiti-covered car is parked at the Transit Authority's East N...

July 19, 1971; Published July 21,1971; Mayor Lindsay fumed. "one of the worst I've seen yet," he said of a graffiti-scarred subway he rode last we...

Feb. 6,1965: Under Demolition: The Brokaw mansions at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, as the razing was begun. The Landmarks Preservation Commission h...

July 28, 1950; Hearing at the Board of Estimate on a proposed pavilion to be presented to the city by Huntington Hartford and to be located in Central...

Dec. 29, 1961; Albert Bard, a 95-year-old man who opposes billboards and other outdoor advertising photographed in his office at 25 Broad Street. (R...

Event Date: 6/7/1955 Duke Snider makes a hit at Ebbets Field and doubles against the Cardinals. Credit: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times

OCTOBER 5, 1993 Barbara Epstein of The New York Review of Books, at the offices on West 57th Street. (Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times)

TO GO WITH PAKISTAN-SPACE-PEOPLE-UAE-MONACO,FEATURE-INTERVIEW BY DAMON WAKE (FILES) In this file photograph taken on August 17, 2006, Namira Salim, t...

TO GO WITH PAKISTAN-SPACE-PEOPLE-UAE-MONACO,FEATURE-INTERVIEW BY DAMON WAKE (FILES) In this file photograph taken on August 17, 2006, Namira Salim, t...

TO GO WITH PAKISTAN-SPACE-PEOPLE-UAE-MONACO,FEATURE-INTERVIEW BY DAMON WAKE (FILES) In this file photograph taken on August 17, 2006, Namira Salim, t...

Barry Goldwater supporters from Iowa wearing Goldwater masks at the GOP Women's National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky September 28, 1964. Credit...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dan Callister / Rex Features (1943669a) James Frey James Frey in Manhattan, New York, America - 10 Aug 2006 Author of th...

09/02/1970; Virginai Tayloe Holton, daughter of Gov. A. Linwood Holton arriving at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond to begin her freshman year....

July 25, 1974; A subway car being cleaned at the Transit Authority yard at 207th Street and 10th Avenue. (William Sauro/The New York Times)

HOROWITZ CONERT TICKET BUYERS Long line formed as tickests go on sale at Carnegie Hall fro Horowitz concert, 4/26/65 credit: Neal Boenzi/The New York...

May 17, 1979; Published May 21, 1979: Graffiti attracts the attention of youngsters riding on a vandalized subway train. (Neal Boenzi/The New York...

11/17/1977 Richard Perle of Senator Jackson's staff in his office at the US Capitol Credit: George Tames/The New York Times Published in NYTimes 4/30...

The Jefferson Memorial at night in Washington, DC, 1985. The memorial, in honor of the the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, is...

President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation in the White House Oval Office. The date of the early 1960s news event is unknown. (George Tames/The Ne...

(11/08/1961) President John F. Kennedy listens to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru speak upon his arrival in Washington on an official state vis...

12/17/1971. Washington D.C. Art Buchwald with his family, wife Ann, Connie 16, Joel 18, dog Ipso Facto, in their living room at home. Credit: George...

12/15/1971. Washington D.C. Art Buchwald in his office. Credit: George Tames/ The New York Times

12/15/1971. Washington D.C. Art Buchwald addresses meeting at Jewish Community Center, in Maryland. Credit: George Tames/ The New York Times

12/15/1971. Washington D.C. Art Buchwald shares his office with a bust of himself, one of many gag items found in the space from which he writes his...

Congressman Adam Clayton Powell and Stokely Carmichael, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the halls of Congress in the 1960s. (Georg...

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, right, and his brother Sen. Ted Kennedy, (D-MA.), walk outside the Capitol in early January 1965. (George Tames/New York Times...

(3/24/1968)Senator Robert F. Kennedy confers with an aide during a flight in California during his presidential campaign March 24, 1968. Kennedy had a...

A worker climbs up to service a colossal oil rig in Texas in 1963. During the 1950s and 60s, Texas was awash in an oil boom. (George Tames/The New Yor...

Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson talks to the group gathered for the Democratic Party dinner Jan. 26, 1960, in Washington. At extreme right is...

(1/26/1960)Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson chats with participants at a Democratic Party dinner Jan. 26, 1960, in Washington. At Johnson's right...

(5/08/1968)President Harry S. Truman celebrates his 65th birthday May 8, 1949, by lighting the candles on his cake. (George Tames/The New York Times)

(6/25/1954) Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the White House and is greeted by President Dwight Eisenhower on June 25, 1954. Less than a ye...

President Richard Nixon meets with Congressional leaders and members of committees concerned with economic policy in October 1971, in the White House....

Tames75, President Lyndon Johnson holds a walking press conference with journalists in early July 1965 at the White House. (George Tames/The New York...

(9/30/1959)Jacqueline Kennedy campaigns for her husband, Sen. John F. Kennedy, in his run for the presidency Sept. 30, 1959, in Madison, WI. She greet...

(8/09/1974) President Richard M. Nixon waves to White House staff members as he boards a helicopter following his resignation from the office of presi...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev at Camp David, MD., in September 1959. Krushchev visited the United States for 12 d...

President Lyndon Johnson grabs the lapel of House Speaker John W. McCormack, (D-MA)., during the dedication of the Carl Vinson Room in the Rayburn Hou...

(7/26/1953)"Slicking up for a night on the town," reads the original caption dated July 26, 1953. The young man is from Colby, KS. (George Tames/The N...