First Subway Ride Size:20" x 25" the Lower East Side was

the Lower East Side was the first stop in America for European immigrants struggling to start a new life

even The Times was swept up by Beatlemania

photographers were given a challenge like none other

practices the game in its original form - with a peach basket and soccer ball - with his wife

First Subway Ride Size:20" x 25" the Lower East Side wasOfficials and notables ride a flatcar with white sheeting covering the wood front railing as the city's first subway riders boarded the IRT for Interborough Rapid Transit at the City Hall Station, October 27, 1904. Major George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general who was dismissed by President Lincoln, is in the first row on the far right.