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Grégoire Alessandrini’s blog “New York City 1990’s” contains an enormous collection of images taken between 1991 and 1998 that artfully depict New York. The website is a snapshot of New York in the 1990s, capturing the spirit of the era with photographs of New York’s architecture that could only exist at that time. As politics and public sentiment have changed, the city has changed with it, and much of the New York Alessandrini captured no longer exists.
To document just how much New York has changed in the past 25 years, we have curated a selection of Alessandrini’s images and set each photograph next to a Google Street View window corresponding to the photographer’s location at the time. In the photographs where Alessandrini observes from an elevated vantage point, the Street View images are as close as possible to the photographer’s location.
Read on after the break to see the images of New York’s dynamic change from the 1990s to 2015.
214 West 42nd Street
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North East corner of 8th avenue and 42nd street
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Times Square
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73 Christopher Street
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Bryant Park
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24 Astor Place
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425 E 12th St
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167 W 23rd Street
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28 Avenue A
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214 East 14th Street
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356 East 8th Street
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192 Fifth Avenue
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839 Washington Street
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210 10th Avenue
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357 West Street
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West 19th Street and 8th Avenue
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80 6th Avenue
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227 West 42nd Street
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234 W 42nd St
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692 8th Avenue
835 Washington St
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28 10th Avenue
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DeKalb Avenue and South Elliot Place
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241 Bowery
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34 White Street
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91 Bowery
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98-100 Avenue A
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110 3rd Avenue
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View more photos on Grégoire Alessandrini’s website.