Taking the Plunge collection-nautical A quintessential symbol of old

A quintessential symbol of old New York - the checker cab

not a day's work in all my life

They wanted more

and appearing at the Rose Bowl and the 1939 New York World's Fair

" The Times reported in August 1970

Taking the Plunge collection-nautical A quintessential symbol of oldA youngster takes a 30 foot dive off an abandoned rooftop into the East River in the summer of 1938. The Williamsburg Bridge can be seen in the background. When this photo was published in The Times, the East River was an industrial zone, which might have led its inhabitants to seek out such thrills. But the waterfront was about to get a makeover thanks to a vision of Robert Moses, the city's parks commissioner, who reclassified it as a recreational