An exhibit celebrating the Big Apple through rare photographs from The New York Post’s archives went on display yesterday in Rockefeller Center.
The exhibit, titled “The Post’s New York, Celebrating 200 Years of New York City Through the Pages and Pictures of The New York Post,” captures the drama of world’s greatest city and its people.
One photo, taken in 1978 by the late, great Post lensman Louis Liotta, shows an acrobat falling from a trapeze outside a building.
She broke a lot of bones, but survived.
Another dramatic shot shows firefighter Kevin Shea rescuing an office worker 12 stories above Times Square in 1991.
The photo won a prize for Michael Norcia, who clambered to the top of an adjoining building to take the shot.
Still another photo is a shot of someone’s back. That someone is the Yankees’ No. 7, the great Mickey Mantle.
Mantle had trouble with his knees and always played in pain. You can see that in the way he holds himself in the picture.
The Post is famous for its celebrity photos, and one of the shots in the exhibit shows a young Barbra Streisand leaving for London on Pan Am with her poodle, Sadie.
The exhibit will be on display on the Concourse Level at 30 Rockefeller Center until Aug. 13, when it will move to the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building on West 125th Street for two weeks.
In September, the exhibit will move to La Guardia Airport, and in October, to the KeySpan Building in Brooklyn. In November, it will be shown at the Port Authority Building on Eighth Avenue, and then it will move to the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island.
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