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#33 The swampy fields of future Battery Park City, The World Trade Center hovers, New York, August 1976

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#33 The swampy fields of future Battery Park City, The World Trade Center hovers, New York, August 1976

Dirty and Polluted New York City in the 1970s: Vintage Photos Show the Another Side of NYC Before the Great Clean-up Began

#33 The swampy fields of future Battery Park City, The World Trade Center hovers, New York, August 1976

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#34 The abandoned West Side Highway looking out at the completed Battery Park City landfill, New York, April 1978→

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