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
North East corner of 8th avenue and 42nd street
Times Square
73 Christopher Street
Bryant Park
24 Astor Place
425 E 12th St
167 W 23rd Street
28 Avenue A
214 East 14th Street
356 East 8th Street
192 Fifth Avenue
839 Washington Street
210 10th Avenue
357 West Street
West 19th Street and 8th Avenue
80 6th Avenue
227 West 42nd Street
234 W 42nd St
692 8th Avenue
835 Washington St
28 10th Avenue
DeKalb Avenue and South Elliot Place
241 Bowery
34 White Street
91 Bowery
98-100 Avenue A
110 3rd Avenue
View more photos on Grégoire Alessandrini’s website.
