Sound-absorbing phone booths were a new feature in the newly-opened Sixth Avenue Subway, December 16, 1940. I hope they were absorbing the sound from the trains, not the phone users.
Photo: Joseph Costa for the NY Daily News via Getty Images

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Sound-absorbing phone booths were a new feature in the newly-opened Sixth Avenue Subway, December 16, 1940. I hope they were absorbing the sound from the trains, not the phone users.
Photo: Joseph Costa for the NY Daily News via Getty Images

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Inmates work in the laundry of the Welfare Island Penitentiary, where the city kept its "lesser criminals," December 16, 1931. There were hundreds of prisoners in the facility.
Photo: Associated Press
Lieut. James A. Hoey of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 demonstrates the art of sliding down a firehouse pole to some of the female volunteers studying measures of air raid protection on December 16, 1941.
Then Jean Kelly volunteered to take a turn.
Photos: Charles Kenneth Lucas for the AP
A flower vendor stands at the corner of 90th Street & Fifth Avenue, December 16, 1933.
Photo: Associated Press