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Empire State Building: The One and Only
On the afternoon of April 30, 2012, steelworkers put in place the first column on the 100th floor at One World Trade Center, a.k.a., the “Freedom Tower,” and just like that, New York City once again...
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Love Letter to New York: Classic LIFE Photos of the Big Apple
The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic urban vistas of Central Park: Over the years...
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LIFE in 2012: The Year in 12 Galleries
What do the Empire State Building, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, Woody Guthrie and druggy Japanese teenagers have in common? Well … nothing, really. Or rather, there’s nothing that they inherently...
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Summer in the City: Revisiting the Ultra-Cool ‘New York Look’ of 1969
Summertime in pretty much any city is a different experience than any other season, but summer in New York is another world. Many of the people who can afford to escape from Gotham in July, and...
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‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’: A Violent Death, an Immortal Photo
In May 1947, LIFE magazine devoted a full page to a picture taken by a photography student named Robert Wiles. The photograph is extraordinary in several ways — not least because it remains, seven...
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