Chrysler Building Crown goods Times staff photographer Fred R

Times staff photographer Fred R

December 17

Photographer Nat Fein took this 1948 rear-view photo of an ailing Babe Ruth while on staff for the New York Herald Tribune

the Lower East Side was the first stop in America for European immigrants struggling to start a new life

but twinkle

Chrysler Building Crown goods Times staff photographer Fred RAn aerial view of the Chrysler Building on 42nd Street, taken from a helicopter by Pulitzer prize winner photographer Vincent Laforet. This photo published in the Home section of The Times on May 26, 2005, with the caption "Superman's View." The section featured multiple photo spreads celebrating the 75th anniversary of the building.