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Paramount Pictures Astoria studio building in 1928. Photographer unknown.

New York Icons: Kaufman Astoria Studios

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The film studio that dates back to when New York was the movie-making capital — and is still thriving.

Garry Winogrand, "Central Park Zoo."

New York Icons: ‘Central Park Zoo’ by Garry Winogrand

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Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Carole King in July 1959.

New York Icons: The Brill Building

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A 1961 movie poster for "West Side Story."

New York Icons: ‘West Side Story’

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Studio photograph of Sylvia Plath (with brown hair) by Warren Kay Vantine, 1954 and the first printing of "The Bell Jar," 1966.

New York Icons: ‘The Bell Jar’

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The best-selling salsa album “Siembra” from 1978; a view of the Bronx, just north of Manhattan.

New York Icons: ‘Siembra’

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How a salsa album that many thought was doomed became a hit.