Tribute in Light featured-custom-gifts-reprints The "new car" was the

The "new car" was the Model A

Staff photographer James Estrin was on assignment taking photographs of passengers for an article on higher demand of the city's taxi cabs

which over the years have gone from glittering gold on bright blue to algae green under a thick coat of grime

The Atlantic would not be crossed nonstop by air again until Charles Lindbergh's flight in the Spirit of St

playing at the Astor Theater in August 1950

Tribute in Light featured-custom-gifts-reprints The "new car" was theEighty eight searchlights, next to the site of the World Trade Center, create two vertical columns of light on the 10 year anniversary of the 9 11 attacks, Sept. 11, 2011. The photo was taken from New Jersey by Pulitzer Prize winning Times photographer Damon Winter.