Old Images of New York Dining Released Online

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• Down the Rabbit Hole by Jessie Tarbox Beals around 1908 [
• Luchow's on 110 East 14th Street, 1938 by Berenice Abbott. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Ritz-Carlton in 1915 by Byron Company [
• Jack's Busy Lunch on the corner of Bowery and Rivington, 1932, by Charles Von Urban. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York [
• The old Washington Market on Washington and Fulton Street, 1933 by Samuel H. Gottscho. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Pioneer Restaurant, 3rd Street and West Broadway, 1937 bu Berenice Abbott. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Scrafft's Candy counter (looks like Eataly, no?), 2285 Broadway, 1930 by Byron Company. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• "Bandit's Roost -- In a stale beer dive in cellar -- flashlight at 3 a.m." 1890 by Jacob A. Riis. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Busy Bee, 1900, by Robert L. Bracklow. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Hotel Pennsylvania interior rooftop dining room, 1919 by Byron Company. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Hotel Astor, roasting a black bear, 1906, by Byron Company. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [
• Hotel Commodore, exercising the chefs, 1920 by Byron Company. From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. [

New York nostalgists, Christmas came early this year. Kottke notes today that The Museum of the City of New York recently released a huge swath of old New York City photographs on its website. Those used to scanning through the New York Public Library's large but not so efficient archive will revel in the images here. They're search-able by tags, key words, era, and borough, and it's a treasure trove of old New York imagery from the late 1800's until the end of the last century.

Of course, what we care about are the restaurants and the markets, and there are plenty of images of those (see here), from the old hotel banquet halls of the early 1900s to the long gone Washington Market, the old Luchow's, and the Howard Johnson's in Times Square in the 80's. We picked out a dozen favorite images, but please do waste the lunch hour browsing the rest.
· The Museum of the City of New York Collection Portal [Official Site via Kottke]