Labor Day weekend marks the traditional end of the summer season in NYC. So before you fire up the BBQ, check out this tour of historical summer scenes across the city.

High Bridge Branch of the New York Public Library, 1933. Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1908, the original High Bridge Branch was demolished in 1975. It was replaced by a new library building on the same site, which according to sources was dark and airless. The branch underwent extensive renovations between 2007 and 2010 with the roof being raised to make for a larger space with generous windows.

Jerome Avenue, west side, at West 170th Street. The W.P.A. men are working on a little park directly to the west of the elevated structure of the I.R.T. subway which runs on Jerome Avenue. The building in the foreground, 1405 Jerome Avenue, was home to 7 Santini Brothers. The company was a leading export packing business in the early twentieth century. Pasquale Santini, the eldest of seven brothers, founded the firm in 1905 after migrating from the Tuscan Hills of Italy. He ran the business with his brothers, Pietro, Paride, Rinaldo, Agostino, Goffredo, and Martino, with the last two joining in 1907. As economic conditions changed, the Santini family eventually sold the company to another moving and storage company in 1988, whereupon the new owners decided to dismantle and sell the various operations of the company. By 1993, the company was completely dissolved.

Jerome Avenue commercial strip, north of East 167th Street, 1940. In the background, a train is visible on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line elevated tracks. At right is Oxford Hardware, with a flurry of related advertisements. At center are signs for the Midway Bar & Grill and Beefsteak Daly’s, which may be the same establishment. A 1955 posting in the Irish-American advocate announces the transfer of a liquor license for 1212 Jerome Avenue from the estate of William A. Daly to Irene C. Daly, doing business as “Midway Cafe.” The photo is dated 1940, but the Beefsteak Daly’s awning carries an advertisement reading “television here,” possibly indicating a later date.

My Archive Spring 2019 "Family photo of future singing star Eydie Gorme (born Edith Gormezano) as a very stylish child on her rooftop in The Bronx. Eydie would go on to star on Broadway, in Las Vegas, at Carnegie Hall, The London Palladium, etc. and was frequently on TV's Tonight Show and Carol Burnett Show, with hit records and albums that topped both the pop and Latin charts." —Neil Cohen

1295 Shakespeare Avenue, about 1924. The two-story clapboard house appears on Bronx maps as early as 1891, when Shakespeare Avenue was known as Marcher Avenue. Despite the 20th century addition of sky-blue vinyl, the house’s bones remain intact, including its distinctive first floor bay window.

1405 Jerome Ave. (formerly Macombs Road), adjoining the N.W. corner of East 170th Street. The house pictured, no longer in existence, was replaced by the 10 story Santini Brothers warehouse.