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This photo shows the Queensboro, 59th Street, Bridge from the Queens side of the East River and the Manhattan skyline, in background, on Dec. 4, 1957. The tall structure at left is the United Nations Secretariat. The season's first snowfall brought 7.3 inches. (AP Photo/Mathew Zimmerman)
Prohibition Repeal 1933
Miss Bunny Swanson (left) impersonating the Spirit of Repeal, assisting happy art student “mourners” in stowing away an effigy of prohibition during a ceremony at the Art Students League Building in New York on Dec. 4, 1933. A processional trip along Fifth Avenue, will follow, when the “remains” will be escorted to the ballroom of a New York hotel, to lie in state during the League Repeal Ball and Revel on December 5. (AP Photo)
Allen Ginsberg
Poet Allen Ginsberg holds a flower and waves from his hospital bed in Albany, New York Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1968. Ginsberg, 42, received a broken hip and cracked ribs in an automobile accident while driving from the Albany airport to his farm in the Catskills. He expects to be in traction for several more weeks. (AP Photo/Steve Starr)
Roosevelt Lehman
Pres. Roosevelt shakes hands with former Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, right, in the executive office of the White House, Dec. 4, 1942, congratulating him after witnessing Lehman's swearing-in as director of foreign relief and rehabilitation operations. Lehman's wife, Edith Altschul Lehman, looks on. (AP Photo)