article_snippet: Then and now: Shops and businesses have sprung up along Doyers Street in the heart of New York's Chinatown (bottom).
article_snippet: Crowds of men gather next to what is now the Barclay's Center, in a picture taken on March 18, 1943 called 'Wartime rationing: retail butchers await arrival of meat' (top).
article_snippet: A photograph taken earlier this month (right) shows people lining up for the September 11 Museum near the World Trade Center transportation hub .
article_snippet: (right) Food for thought: The 24-hour Ham n Egg restaurant on West 51st Street (top) is shown in Weegee's 1953 photo.
article_snippet: Crowds are pictured along Wall Street in May 1945 as the nation was celebrating VE Day (left).
article_snippet: A 1945 picture called 'Victory' shows men and women at a Chinese restaurant (top).
article_snippet: An August 1945 picture called 'Celebration in the Garment District on Japanese offer to surrender' is shown left while the same street is pictured right .
article_snippet: A 1953 Weegee photo called 'Showing Tonite' (top) captured 42nd Street in New York.