Here is a great collection of very interesting archive photos.All of them were made in NYC at the beginning of the 20th century.It was the real era of changes and I think people tend to forget that the great city of New York was built from the ground up. Its hard to imagine these days of building an entire city of that magnitude by hand. Some of these images give me the chills seeing the workers hanging out on beams suspended hundreds of feet in the air, being totally relaxed and comfortable. I don’t know about you but there is no way I would be up there without about 50 harnesses attached to my body.