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I’ve run across a beautiful website that hosts a large collection of photos of New York City from around 1935-38. What’s fascinating is side by side, photographer Douglas Levere has gone out and attempted to shoot the exact same scene in contemporary (1997-2001) New York. The result is a series of astonishingly beautiful, and remarkably similar photographs. While in some shots, especially those of domestic dwellings like apartment blocks, the whole image is different. However in others not a thing, save different traffic lights, has changed. Often buildings and detritus from the 30’s has disappeared by the year 2000. My certain favorite is the photos of Seventh Ave South. There’s almost no change whatsover!

The site is at newyorkchanging.com while a gallery of the new photographs by Levere, not shown side by side with originals, is also on the same site