A few years ago I wrote an article in our Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami BRANCHES Newsletter about New York City Tax Photos. Photographs are available on a searchable database at the New York City Department of Records and Information Services. (http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/NYCMA~7~7
The Guide to the 1940s Tax Department photographs, 1939-1951 can be found by clicking HERE
As reported by Dick Eastman "a new website maps old city tax photos in a 1940s Street View map."
Read about this by clicking https://www.brooklynpaper.com/1940s-new-york-city-picures-history/
Link to this new website:
https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397