Two people stop on Broadway and look at the bus fares to various destinations, December 1, 1944.

Ernie Nevers, Cardinals star, squirms his way along the ground for a gain in a game between the New York Giants and the Chicago Cardinals at the Polo Grounds, December 1, 1929. The Giants won, 24 to 21.

Brooklyn's leading rum runner, Vannie Higgins, and 36 of his men were caught by Treasury agents off of Clifton, Staten Island, December 1, 1931, as they were running in through the Verrazano Narrows in a converted British minelayer. But they had missed their supply ship in the night fog, so the U.S. Attorney's office had no option but to let them go.

Unfazed by the 17.7 degree Fahrenheit temperature, J. Kay and Nathan Turkel continued their chess game in Central Park, December 1, 1958.