These Historical Photos Show New Yorkers Basking In The Springtime Sun
Spring in New York lasts approximately three hours, so you need to take advantage of it. We looked at past New Yorkers as they shed their winter jackets, peeled off their wool socks, and stopped to smell the roses.
People relax in Central Park on a sunny day near the Pilgrim Fathers monument, April 1978.
Participants in the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue wear various creative hats. In the foreground, a woman wears a flowery Easter bonnet.
Left: A woman suns herself. Right: A man wears a cowboy outfit in downtown Manhattan.
The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
Older women sit on the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, Queens, on April 24, 1982.
New Yorkers roller-skate to work during the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
Michela Reina, 9, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, playfully leaps off a ledge outside of South Street Seaport in Manhattan.
An unidentified person poses with a flower, circa 1980s or 1990s.
Kids and adults on swings in Central Park
Warm weather at South Street Seaport
Left: A man suns himself in Liberty Plaza Park. Right: People take their lunch breaks at the McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan.
Two people knit and nap in warm weather on March 11, 1977.
Children play on a sidewalk in Chinatown, circa 1978.
Leyla Gencer basks in the sunshine outside the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport on April 11, 1973.
A man and woman walk north on the sidewalk past the New York Jewelers Exchange in Manhattan in April 1979.
Spectators watch a baseball game in Flushing Meadows Park in the Corona neighborhood of Queens.
Three women on a bench at Coney Island
A man crouches down to pet a sheep on a sunny spring day during the first annual Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
People relax along a footpath in Bryant Park in Manhattan on May 10, 1979.
A woman paints on a beautiful day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Pia Peterson is a photo editor at BuzzFeed News, and is based in Brooklyn.
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