Cleaning the sidewalks north side of 14th Street looking east from 4th Avenue. Subway kiosk on right and in background the original Academy of Music on left. A major snowstorm hit New York City on January 24, 1908 and dumped over ten inches of snow in New York and 35 mile per hour gusts of wind had some snowdrifts pile up from six to ten feet. All of the snow had to be removed by manual labor. And when the city put out notices that men were needed for temporary work to remove the snow with shovels, over 30,000 men applied. Snow removal at that time consisted of men shoveling the heavy accumulation into wagons which hauled it out of town, where they had to be unloaded by more shoveling. Photographed by Bain News Service, January 25,1908.