Antonia + Yellow Taxi, New York 30/4, 1962
Despite having no formal training, William Klein became a hugely influential photographer in fashion and photojournalism. His use of motion blur, unusual in the 1960s, underlines this photograph of a model stepping out of a ubiquitous New York yellow cab Photograph: William Klein
Coney Island I, 1953
Three men take the sun against a tattered storefront in Coney Island, as captured by veteran New York photographer Marvin Newman Photograph: Marvin Newman
Camel Coats, New York City, 1975
A couple in matching coats step through steam from the New York heating system. Joel Meyerowitz, the Bronx-born photographer, was an early advocate of colour in art photography in the 1960s Photograph: Joel Meyerowitz
Locksmith's Sign, NYC, 1952
The outline of a key mimics the blockish shape of a New York skyscraper in this ingenious photograph by the Austrian artist Ernst Haas, another early advocate of colour, who moved to New York in the 1950s Photograph: Ernst Haas
Central Park, 2010
The whiteness of winter snow provides a neutral ground for fuzzy puffballs of colour in Susan Wides's photograph of Central Park after a blizzard Photograph: Susan Wides
Young Velvets, Young Prices, Hat Fashions (Vogue), 1949
Four models pose on the roof of the Condé Nast building on Times Square for the legendary British fashion photographer Norman Parkinson, offsetting the grey skyscrapers behind them Photograph: Norman Parkinson
New York Subway, 1966
A woman ignores a safety warning on the New York subway. The photographer, Danny Lyon, also documented Texan prisons, rebel bikers and the demolition of buildings in lower Manhattan Photograph: Danny Lyon
I, Manhattan, January 17, 2007
Susan Wides has spent years investigating New York and its surrounding landscape. Here, using tilt-shift photography, she challenges the scale of Manhattan's towering skyline, making it look like a child's model of the city Photograph: Susan Wides
Taxi, 1957
Born in Pittsburgh, Saul Leiter moved to New York at 23 and became renowned for his painterly photographs of street life in the city. His subjects were often obscured so that only small details, such as the hand of this taxi passenger, could be seen Photograph: Saul Leiter
Times Square, 1955
Times Square in all its lurid glory. The photographer, Erwin Blumenfeld, began his career in Germany but escaped to America in 1941 and became famous for his fashion photography, which appeared in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar Photograph: Erwin Blumenfeld
M14 Crosstown Loop, 2006
Best known for her black-and-white photographs of homeless dwellings in New York, Margaret Morton allows some colour into Manhattan's rain-soaked 14th Street as viewed from the window of the crosstown bus Photograph: Margaret Morton
