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Lower East Side scene with street spray shower, circa 1880s

For generations, New Yorkers have used the spray from fire hydrants to cool off in the summer sun. Municipal Archives Collection, NYC Municipal Archives.

Black and white city scene showing some pushcarts and several businesses nearby including a tailor shop, one business with sign written in Hebrew and a bathouse facility. A tall multiheaded sprinkler stands in the street shooting up water.

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