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Coney Island Beach

Date: 1969
Description: Man walking on Coney Island Beach.
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Resting in the Sun, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A group of five men and women sit on metal crates in the sun on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1969
Description: Staten Island Ferry, Lower Manhattan.
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Coney Island

Date: 1969
Description: The Thunderbolt Roller Coaster at Coney Island.
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Children Posing, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A group of five girls holding school books pose for a portrait in front of a building on Coney Island.
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Rollercoaster, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A woman standing in front of closed stalls on Coney Island. The framework for the Devil's Pit roller coaster rises in the background behind dilapidated si...
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Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1968
Description: View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ...
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Reader and Advisor, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: Close-up of a fortune teller's shop front on Coney Island. The multiple signs read, "Reader and Advisor," "Have Your Hand Writing Analyzed," "We Give Card ...
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Man Walking in the Sand, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A man walking with a cane in the sand dunes on Coney Island. A dilapidated fence cuts across the foreground of the beach and a rock jetty juts into the ba...
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East Lagoon in Winter

Date: 1993
Description: Snow covered trees are growing out of a small island on a lagoon, with more trees lining the shore. In the distance are the central buildings of Northern I...
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Sachuest Point

Date: 1977
Description: Wooden boardwalk surrounded by white dwelling.
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Stairway

Date: 1975
Description: Stairway in the Quinney house at 44 University Avenue.
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Hundred Acre Cove

Date: 1977
Description: Child overlooking a lake next to an unfinished building.
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Henry Hudson Parkway

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view from steep hill of vehicles traveling on the tree-lined Henry Hudson Parkway.
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Man Sleeping, Bowery

Date: 1968
Description: Man sleeping on a sidewalk in front of a retractable metal gate in the Bowery.
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Stacks of Concrete Pipes

Date: 1969
Description: Large concrete pipes stacked outdoors.
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Car, Harlem River

Date: 1968
Description: A derelict car overhangs a rocky and snow-bound bank of the Harlem River. Possibly a Ford Galaxie 500 circa 1963 [?]
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Woman with Pigeons, FDR Drive

Date: 1968
Description: A woman sits surrounded by pigeons on a park bench in front of a stone building on FDR Drive.
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"Revolution," East Village

Date: 1968
Description: Close-up of a graffiti painted wall that reads, "Pill" and "Only Revolution Ends War!" framed by hammer and sickles.
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Broken Tricycle

Date: 1969
Description: The front wheel and handlebars of a tricycle lays in the dirt.

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