Lower Manhattan Frame Color:Brown Ready to let off steam

Ready to let off steam

and a large river running through it

We Fell in Love

History would show that 1937 marked the last great season for Lou Gehrig (left)

and heights

Lower Manhattan Frame Color:Brown Ready to let off steamThis aerial image captures lower Manhattan when the tip of the island was scored with piers and dotted with old buildings. The area, however, was on the eve of evolution. "Much of lower Manhattan where New York was born and began the expansion that has made it the nation's largest and wealthiest city, will be dramatically transformed with projects now under construction or planned are completed," The Times wrote April 17, 1963. This photo was