Lower Manhattan shape-square like this one at the

like this one at the 62nd street playground in Central Park taken by Times staff photographer Eddie Hausner

"In this pleasant land where the greatest tension ever felt by most people in the past was the pull of a fish on a baited line all the countryside is now taut with the strains of the Atomic Age

This glimpse south from the Empire State Building showed a city shrouded in acrid

The statue was the result of a collaboration between French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi

he was a voluminous and instructive writer

Lower Manhattan shape-square like this one at theThis aerial image captures lower Manhattan when the tip of the island was scored with piers and dotted with old buildings. The area, however, was on the eve of evolution. "Much of lower Manhattan where New York was born and began the expansion that has made it the nation's largest and wealthiest city, will be dramatically transformed with projects now under construction or planned are completed," The Times wrote April 17, 1963. This photo was