Indiana-based photographer Charles Weever Cushman documented 1940s New York. Seventy years later, his color Kodachrome images reveal how little and how much New York has changed.

Here is a storefront near the corner of Broome Street and Baruch Place on the Lower East Side, Sept. 27, 1941.  ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

A fall day on Pearl Street, downtown, Oct. 7, 1942.  ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

The old Fulton Market on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 27, 1941. ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

Residents of the Lower East Side, Clinton Street, near the East River, on a Saturday afternoon in September 1941. ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

Looking at New York’s  skyline  from Jersey City, N.J., on a ferry, Sept 27, 1941. ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

A scene on the Lower East Side, October 1942  ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

Established in 1854 and still operating in 2011, McSorley’s Old Ale House on East 7th Street is pictured on Oct. 7, 1942. ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )

Men on a horse and cart collect salvage on the Lower East Side, Oct. 4, 1941. ( Charles W. Cushman Collection )