Explore fascinating and nearly forgotten images of New York captured at the peak of its history! Discover incredible portraits of streets, people, and moments that reveal a city completely different from what we know today. A unique journey through extremely rare photos showing New York as you've never seen it before!

I'm in Central Park right now and I'm sitting next to this little rod that pretty much nobody seems to even notice. It's really small in the ground, but it is a piece of History. This is one of the only remaining ones of thousands that used to exist that represent a New York that could have been a New York where buildings filled where Central Park is today. In this lesson I'm going to tell you everything you should know about Central Park.

Love it or loathe it, Times Square has been an iconic part of New York City since at least 1872, when it was called Longacre Square and was the central hub of the City's horse carriage industry. In this vintage photograph captured around 1905, just one year after being renamed to "Times Square", peek south through the square at the namesake New York Times Building and surrounding buildings.

Here is a Google StreetView of approximately the same view today.