A fascinating new book reveals how little or how much change New York has endured over the past century, with black and white images juxtaposed with snaps from today. Jamie McDonald, of Yesterday and Today, sifted through hundreds of images taken mostly between 1930 and 1940 for the tax department in a bid to document virtually every piece of real estate in the city's five boroughs; Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.He notes in the introduction that at one point, 'close to 1,000 employees worked on the project, mostly auditors and bookkeepers... [but] only 32 photographers shot the photographs.'
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