New Yorkers throw out a lot of interesting things. Some things are food items that are perfectly edible, some are in discarded yet otherwise perfect condition, and sometimes, people even toss vintage items with a ton of history. In this short video from filmmakers Rota6 Films, meet a trash collector named Nick DiMola who finds, cleans, and keeps these historic items.

Meet Nick DiMola, a bonafide trash connoisseur. He loves his job and he loves garbage. Over 30 years in the garbage business, he has collected a museum’s worth of old and rare items, most of it from the estates of dead people. With every piece of trash that he saves from the landfill, a piece of history lives on.

Since the early 1980’s, a mysterious cryptic message embedded into the ground has been appearing on roads and pavements all across the United States: Toynbee Idea In Movie 2001 Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter. This is the (semi) solved mystery of the Toynbee tiles.

With video cameras getting smaller and more sophisticated, dashcam videos are ubiquitous nowadays. Back in 1900s however, can you imagine the size of the video camera mounted on the "dash" of this carriage riding through the streets of New York?!

Possibly the very first dash cam footage ever recorded. New York City Circa 1900 - An extremely interesting watch!