#27 dec.

This is Jean Schwartz, a New York dress finisher who has been out of a job for 18 weeks, December 27, 1937. She appeared at the Central Post Office to fill out her application for unemployment insurance, something nearly a million in the state were expected to do before the end of 1938. A staff of 4,000 was hired to handle the applications.

The Daily News covers the whopping snowstorm that hit New York on Dec. 26th and 27th in its December 27, 1947 edition.

The official opening of the Holland Tunnel on the Jersey City side, December 27, 1927. In the background are buses lined up ready to take officials to the New York side of the tunnel.

On December 27, 1928, Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt named Frances Perkins the new Commissioner of Labor, the first woman to hold the job. An advocate for workers' rights, she helped put New York in the forefront of progressive reform by expanding factory investigations, capping the workweek for women at 48 hours, championing a minimum wage and unemployment insurance, and working to end child labor. In 1933, President Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor, a post she held for 12 years. She was the first woman ever to hold a Cabinet position.

25.8-IN. SNOW TIES UP CITY screamed the Daily News on December 27, 1947 (as if New Yorkers didn't know). The paper went on to say, "The worst snowstorm in New York City's history struck yesterday—a white fury that brought the nation's biggest city to a virtual standstill, snarling subways, stalling thousands of cars, slowing up harbor traffic, delaying commuter trains, and bringing death."

The second picture, taken on December 27 in Times Square, gives a good idea of how deep the drifts were.

Radio City Music Hall opened on December 27, 1932—the first building in Rockefeller Center to be completed. It was a glamorous evening, with hundreds of celebrities. On the left are Tammany Hall boss John F. Curry and his wife, and on the right are Nelson Rockefeller, Mrs. Raymond Hood (wife of the architect), and Mrs. S.A. Rothafel (wife of the theatrical impresario Roxy Rothafel).