Two parade official watch New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade pass by on Fifth Avenue as one of them sneaks a cigarette break.

A man playing a guitar promotes the film "Johnny Guitar" on the sidewalks of Times Square in the Spring of 1954.

People walk on a rainy sidewalk across from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York sometime in the mid 1950's.

The reflection of the Chrysler Building is seen in a puddle on a sidewalk along 42nd Street in New York in April of 1954.

Two kids lean against a stone pillar in New York's Kissena Park in May of 1954.

Four men are seen through an open gate at New York's Whitehall Terminal in October of 1953.

Three young ladies prepare to have their pictures taken in photo booths in Manhattan in April of 1954.

A man sells jewelry on the street in New York's Times Square in the Spring of 1954.

People peer through a fence at bathers at the pool in New York's Astoria Park.

A man wearing a tattered coat takes a drink from a glass in the Bowery section of New York in the early 1950's.

Men gather to read the news ticker in a window of the Associated Press building in Rockefeller Center in the fall of 1955.

The reflection of the public can be seen in a window looking on to the set of the Today Show in May of 1954.

A man waits at a train station sometime in the early 1950's.

People gather on the corner of Mott Street in Chinatown in January of 1953.

A man loads kegs of beer into a bar basement in New York City in 1953.

A young boy peers into the East River near the Hells Gate bridge in Astoria, New York sometime in the mid 1950's.

A woman suns herself outside the entrance to the main Public Library building in 1955.

Pedestrians pass by each other on the corner of Park Avenue and 57th Street in New York City in 1953.

A small group of men gather around a desk as seen through a window at the RCA Exhibition Hall in New York City in May of 1953.

A vendor pushes his cart through the streets of Chinatown in December of 1953.

A man works in his shoe repair store in December of 1957 in New York City.

A woman puts on a demonstration of some form of Asian caligraphy in New York City in November of 1954.

A group of kids wait on Fifth Avenue along Central Park for New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade to pass by in the early to mid 1950's.

A doorman talks to another man under an awning at Rockefeller Center in December of 1954.

A car passes under the Brooklyn Bridge in 1954.

Two boys gather at the boat launch in Kissena Park in Flushing, New York on the 4th of July, 1953.

Men gather to play chess in a New York City park on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1953.

A chef prepares food in a restaurant as seen though a window reflection of New York's Times Square in November of 1954.

A policeman writes a parking ticket on 5th Avenue in 1953.

Boys shine the shoes of two young men outside a Horn and Hardart automat in New York on April 21, 1954.

Four young boys in costume ham it up in Kissena Park, Flushing in 1953.

Photographer Frank Oscar Larson (top row, far left) poses with his bowling team sometime in 1953.

Four kids play in front of a building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York in May of 1959.

A repair crew works on a manhole on a street in New York City in November of 1954.

Kids feed a young elephant over a fence at New York's Bronx Zoo on October 4, 1953.

A man prepares to take a swing at a softball in New York's Central Park in May of 1953.

Two men engage in a conversation as kids swim in the Astoria Park public pool in New York City on July 5th, 1953.

A man stays warm from a fire in a burning drum in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City in December of 1953.

Commuters line up to buy tickets at New York's Grand Central Terminal in December of 1954.

A Subway kiosk on the edge of New York's Battery Park stands lit from within on a misty night in April of 1958.

A rainy evening in New York's Times Square under the neon lights of the "Black Widow" marquee, October 28, 1954.

A man walks by a subway entrance in New York City in November of 1954.

A man walks under an eleveted train line that ran along Park Row in Lower Manhattan in 1953.

A man works on New York souvenirs with his sewing machine in November, 1954.

Two men have a conversation in a coffee shop near Times Square in April of 1954.

Four football players stand on the sidelines as a game is being played in New York's Kissena Park on October 31, 1954.

A man and a young child stand along the edge of the pond in New York's Kissena Park against a setting sun in 1952.

A street vendor with what appears to be balloons for sale stands at the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street in Times Square in April, 1954.

Four school girl dressed in finery gather on a sidewalk someplace in New York City in 1953.

Four boys are perched on a window sill to get a good view of New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade sometime in the early to mid 1950's.

A crowd gathers on steps to watch the Saint Patrick's Day Parade on New York's Fifth Avenue sometime in the early to mid 1950's.

A bookstore in Lower Manhattan is seen looking down a dark alley April of 1958.

A man holds a sleeping boy on a New York subway car in 1953.

A man sits on a parapet watching bathers at a pool in Astoria Park, Queens in 1953.

A man poses on the top rails of a bench in Columbus Park in the Chinatown section of New York in November, 1953

Pigeons gather in Times Square on a rainy day in 1954 in front of the marquee for "A Star is Born" starring Judy Garland.

Cars sit under the streetlight on a wet night in lower Manhattan in April of 1958.

Midtown pedestrians pass by a worker taking a break in New York City sometime in the early to mid 1950's.

A couple take to the ice on the Rockefeller Center rink on November 8, 1954.

Three women work in a kitchen in New York City in 1953.

A woman peers out from a ticket booth of a movie theater in New York's Times Square sometime in 1954.

A man and a young girl walk near the Fulton Fish Market in December of 1953.

The skyline of Manhattan and Fifth Avenue in winter is seen through the trees of Central Park in the early 1950's.

The photographer Frank Larson films himself in the reflection of a boat shop window in New York's City Island in February of 1953.