This great collection of vintage photographs from Flickr user Michael Donovan show several different New York City street scenes all throughout the 1950s.
Broadway & 47th Street, 1951Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1951Photo: Michael Donovan
Bowling Green, Manhattan, 1952Photo: Michael Donovan
Columbus Circle, New York City, 1952Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1952Photo: Michael Donovan
42nd Street off 7th Avenue, 1953Photo: Michael Donovan
Melrose Avenue toward 149th Street, the Bronx, 1953Photo: Michael Donovan
Park Row & Worth Street, 1953Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1953Photo: Michael Donovan
42nd Street & Broadway , 1954Photo: Michael Donovan
Broadway & 44th Street, April 15, 1954Photo: Michael Donovan
Broadway & 51st Street, 1954Photo: Michael Donovan
New York City, 1954Photo: Michael Donovan
42nd Street & 3rd Avenue, 1955Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1955Photo: Michael Donovan
West 8th Street & Macdougal Street, circa 1955Photo: Michael Donovan
5th Avenue & 50th Street (St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the right), 1956Photo: Michael Donovan
Fulton Street & Bond Street, Brooklyn, with a view of the RKO Albee Theater, 1956Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1956Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square, 1956Photo: Michael Donovan
Times Square,1958Photo: Michael Donovan
Battery Park, New York City, 1959Photo: Michael Donovan
Broadway & 42nd Street, 1959Photo: Michael Donovan
Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue & 40th Street, 1959Photo: Michael Donovan
Manhattan skyline, 1959Photo: Michael Donovan