"This is my family (mom, dad, uncle, brother, and sister). After working hard for almost 10 years in New York, my father finally saved enough money to open his own business (a Chinese laundry in the Bronx) and was able to reunite the family who he had to leave behind in Hong Kong when he immigrated. This is a photo taken not long after that reunification and showed the triumph of the family being together and prospering." —Amy Chin

"Amy Peck, seven years old, and her sister Sally Peck, five years old. I think my father liked the advertisements." —Amy Peck

"Samuel Ettinger standing on top of WTC in Fall 1986." —Andrew Ettinger

"Dr. Pasquale Felitti was my great-great-grandfather, a neighborhood physician. His pharmacy was at 2222 First Avenue. This photo was 1916 in front of the pharmacy, the building still stands today but is in rough shape. I wrote a nearly 1000 page book about this family, and there exists no other book like it on any Italian family from East Harlem. I'm very proud of the book, and even more proud to claim a family heritage connection to them." —Conor Welch

"Broadway Tavern was located at 30-09 Broadway next to the elevated train station between 31st and 30th Avenue in Astoria. The woman on the left is my Mom’s best girlfriend Jeanie “SugarBabe” Alvatar (my godmother's daughter ), the other woman is my mother, Iris Lillian Tomasello née Russell." —Joe Tomasello

"David Pullman and Michael Berrios are in the photo which was taken about 1970 at 710 Euclid Avenue in East New York" —David Pullman

"February 23rd would have been my dad’s 84th Birthday and in celebration of McSorley’s 165th Birthday, I am so pleased to share Manny Sanger and an unidentified friend in front of McSorley’s in July of 1958." —Erika Sanger

"On July 4, 1948, my parents ventured down from upstate to visit my mom’s father in NYC. In this picture, left to right: mom’s second cousin – Jimmy Lum, mom - Grace C. Chu, mom’s dad - How Lum, and my father - Henry C. Chu. They are posing in front of a Chinese-American restaurant located in the Inwood section of Manhattan. Jimmy & his two brothers (Jack and George), my grandfather, and another relative Cheung Lum owned and operated this restaurant that opened in 1946. In 1951, they opened a second one in the Bronx. They finally decided in 1952 to close the two restaurants and opened up a new one in Flushing called Lums Chinese-American Restaurant. The restaurant became the premiere Chinese-American restaurant in Flushing for many decades before closing in the 1980s. It is interesting to note that How Lum is the great grandfather of musical theater performer Adrianne Chu and Jimmy Lum is the great grandfather of rapper/actress Nora Lum…better known as Awkwafina." —Henry Chu

"This photo was taken in 1981. The gentleman on the right end is my grandfather, Paolo Anfosso, with his retired neighborhood cronies. They gathered most days in Minetta Triangle or Fr. Demo Square. He and my grandmother, Yolanda, were fixtures in what was then the very Italian Greenwich Village. They lived at 259 Bleecker Street above Zito's Bakery for over 70 years. Paolo was a chef in Jersey City who spoke mostly Italian. Yolanda was a kindergarten teacher first at the Children's Aid Society then, St. Anthony's on Sullivan St. The 3rd gentleman from the right was his good friend also named Paul. The story goes, someone saw them all gathered one day and stopped to ask if they would have their picture taken. To us, this has become a family classic moment in time." —Jean Gross

"A photo of my mother, her siblings, and their mother taken in 1942 or so, no later than 1945." —Jill Melamed

"Barbara Abbott, 1928" —John Abbott

"This photo was taken by my buddy "Willie" who was attending Manhattan Community College and was in the school's student photography club. Willie had taken me to visit his old neighborhood since moving to my neighborhood on West 145th Street." —JP Nieves

"Chinese women at Mondale rally in the Garment District." —Karen Bell

"This photo was taken on a class trip to the 1964 Worlds Fair. I am sitting with my fourth-grade teacher Sister Josefa and classmate Brian. It was taken by my mother, who was a class mother on the trip." —Lisa Malaspina

"A photo taken by A. Tennyson Beals (husband of Jessie Tarbox Beals) not certain of the date--(note the attire of woman in the window of building next door re date). East Harlem was once the largest community of Italians. My father, Pete Pascale was director of LaGuardia Memorial House." —Lois Pascale Evans

"This is a family photograph of my grandfather, Andrew Bambace who was born in Calabria, Italy in 1900. He immigrated to America in 1920. Our family comes from a region rich in agriculture, so fruits and vegetables are what he knew. He literally built a push cart out of discarded wood and sold apples and oranges. He would push from West 4th Street to 34th Street. Then the great depression came, and he had to abandon his cart. He then roasted chestnuts on a corner of 34th Street. It became increasingly difficult to survive, but he managed to save for ship passage and in 1928 he returned to Italy, discouraged but not about to give up on his American dream. He married in 1931, sold a small piece of land and in 1934 he came back to New York and opened this store in the photograph at 10 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and West 4th Street). “Nonno” lived right up the street in a 6th-floor walk-up, 165 West 4th Street." —Mary Lofaro

"I was walking the avenue with my camera when I came upon an unusual sight. The couple behind the horse were arguing and the woman was complaining about being embarrassed." —Michael Castellano

"This photo was taken in the summer of '87. It is a photo of my father standing in front of one of his store locations. My father opened his first O.M.G. Jeans store in NYC in 1985 and expanded to additional locations over the years. The stores are still in business today." —Mya Goldberg

"This picture was taken Thanksgiving weekend 1985. In the time before cellphones and instant access a group of college friends independently, coincidentally, descended upon the city to visit a mutual friend. Six months later, I moved into the very same building and began my career as a New Yorker. Pictured L to R in the group photo: Philip Mondello, Ron Brice, Joe Crute, Tim Pruce, Bob Buffone." —Philip Mondello

"This is my great-great-great grandfather’s hat shop. His name was John Henry Day. He was born in New York in 1832 and died in 1909." —Todd Hirsch

"A day in the life of the Occupy Wall Street (9/17/2001-11/15/2001) protests against economic inequality at Zuccotti Park, Wall Street. The photo was taken by the late Jerry Travis, who was a Grey Line tour guide." —Sharon Gold

"Brooklyn Heights Promenade Under Construction. I assume this photo was taken by my grandpop Joseph Mrowka who as a chemical engineer was an Inspector of Combustibles for the NYC Fire Department." —Tara Mrowka

"My parents' wedding day in 1958." —Teri Graham

"A photo of me and my brother. I think he is 3 and I am 7. Probably taken in 1963." —Robyn Roth-Moise

"In 1919, the Fisher family, immigrants from Bialystok, in what was then Russia, opened a men’s clothing retail store at 66-66 Grand Avenue in Maspeth, Queens. David Fisher, born in 1896, and my grandmother, Sarah \[n. Wenig], born in the U.S. in 1900, had a son, Norman, born April 15, 1923. He grew up and helped in their store. Adjacent to the Fisher’s store was a candy and news stand owned by Irving Frankel. Hannah Frankel’s younger sister, Shirley Boxer, born July 21, 1924, would travel after school from home in Brooklyn to help her brother-in-law in his shop. When Norman would take a break from the rigors of work at Fisher’s, he went next door to enjoy a cool, soothing egg cream, prepared by that blond, blue-eyed beauty, Shirley. It was love at first sip. This photo of Shirley Boxer and Norman Fisher was taken May 17, 1941, when they were 17 and 18-years old – Frankel’s place to the left; Fisher’s shop to the right. Upon his return in 1946 from service in the Army in Europe during WWII, he married his long-time sweetheart on October 20, 1946. Who knew that one day they would be my mom and dad?" —Steve Fisher