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.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt Apartments, ca. 1937 From 1888 through 1930, the Bronx experienced significant growth and expansion, which was halted at the start of the Great Depression. But these apartments, located on the Bronx's Grand Concourse, were privately contracted as part of an outlying economic success within the Bronx during the 1930s. This area remained fairly prosperous throughout this time period. These buildings were representative of Bronx residences at time, which were considerably better-equipped than those of the other boroughs in the early to mid 1900s. 99% of homes in the Bronx had private bathrooms, 97% had running hot water, and 48% had electric refrigerators, which was more than the other boroughs had at the time.

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.