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This Vintage Postcard Shows Spooky Old House on Riverside Drive in Washington Heights Circa 1910

2023-11-04T12:00:00-04:00

Our friends at Ephemeral New York dug up this vintage postcard from around 1910 which shows Riverside Drive just south of 155th street along with a spooky old house.

Here is a peaceful and placid Riverside Drive at 155th Street around 1910, well before the George Washington Bridge ushered in residential development and crazy car traffic.

For reference, here is a Google Street View of what the same area looks like today.

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[VIDEO] Check Out This Beautiful Aerial Video Over the Hudson and Upper West Side of Manhattan

2023-07-15T12:00:00-04:00

YouTuber and drone enthusiast DroneFanatic recently captured this great aerial video showing the Hudson River, Riverside Park, the Upper West Side and bits of New Jersey all from a birds-eye view.

The music featured in the video is AURORA — "Life on Mars"

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[WATCH] NYC’s Hudson River: Clean Enough To Swim In?

2023-01-04T12:00:00-05:00

For years following World War II, it was unthinkable to swim in New York City’s harbor. Today, though, decades of effort and hard work have made a big difference – and the water regularly tests clean. But… is it safe to swim in?

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[REPOST] Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Battery Park and Financial District 100 Years Ago

2022-09-03T12:00:00-04:00

At the time, New York City had a population of 5.7 million - the population had doubled in just 30 years due to mass immigration. The city was developing rapidly, and more than a quarter of the 300 largest companies in the US were headquartered in NYC.

The city was a destination for internal migrants as well as immigrants. Through 1940, New York was a major destination for African Americans during the Great Migration from the rural American South. The Harlem Renaissance flourished during the 1920s and the era of Prohibition. New York's ever accelerating changes and rising crime and poverty rates were reduced after World War I disrupted trade routes, the Immigration Restriction Acts limited additional immigration after the war, and the Great Depression reduced the need for new labor. The combination ended the rule of the Gilded Age barons. As the city's demographics temporarily stabilized, labor unionization helped the working class gain new protections and middle-class affluence, the city's government and infrastructure underwent a dramatic overhaul under Fiorello La Guardia, and his controversial parks commissioner, Robert Moses, ended the blight of many tenement areas, expanded new parks, remade streets, and restricted and reorganized zoning controls.

For a while, New York ranked as the most populous city in the world, overtaking London in 1925, which had reigned for a century. The 'Roaring 20s' also saw a construction boom, and many of New York's icons including Chrysler Center, Rockefeller Center, and the Empire State Building would be constructed in the ensuing decade.

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[WATCH] New York City's Hudson River Now Home To Dolphins

2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00

Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, the Hudson River in New York City is the cleanest it’s been since the Civil War and is now home to dolphins.

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[VIDEO] The REAL Reason New York Is Successful

2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00

It's all about the New York Harbor, Hudson River, Manhattan bedrock, and geography.

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Sunday, June 12th, 2022, Good Evening!

2022-06-12T18:00:00-04:00

Good evening! Wishing you a happy Sunday, June 12th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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Saturday, May 21st, 2022, Good Afternoon!

2022-05-21T14:00:00-04:00

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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Thursday, May 5th, 2022, Good Evening!

2022-05-05T18:00:00-04:00

Good evening! Wishing you a happy Thursday, May 5th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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Thursday, May 5th, 2022, Good Afternoon!

2022-05-05T14:00:00-04:00

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Thursday, May 5th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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