Iconic images of New York go online for first time

The two men were found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-storey building, as if dumped there, one sprawled on top of the other.

The rare crime scene photograph from Nov 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the internet for the first time.

The city’s Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database yesterday.