2017 was a great year for Viewing NYC. We published three thousand, three hundred and eighty-one articles averaging just over nine posts per day. Of those, here are the ten posts you liked best this year:

#10 Vintage Photographs Show Beachgoers Being Ticketed for 'Indecent Exposure' at Rockaway Beach in 1946

#9 [VIDEO] Meet Avi Gitler and His "Pay What You Wish" Bookstore in Harlem

#8 This Sad Video Shows Exactly Why You Should Shop in NYC on Small Business Saturday

#7 This Artist Opened a Gallery of Nude Snapchats in Tribeca [NSFW]

#6 Barn Joo's New Union Square Location Now Open With Best Happy Hour in Neighborhood

#5 This Photographer Captures Nude Models on New York City Rooftops [NSFW]

#4 Watch This Tiny Mouse Terrify Straphangers on the New York City Subway

#3 NYC Scams 101: Don't Get Fooled by the "Broken Bottle" Scam

#2 This Comprehensive Map Shows How All Manhattan Neighborhoods Fit Together

And finally, the #1 most popular post on Viewing NYC for 2017: [VIDEO] Take a Peek at Sara Berman's All-White Closet at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Happy New Year!

New York City is breaking from the pack when it comes to crime. While crime is up in many cities, the city's crime rate has fallen to levels not seen since the 1950s. Anna Werner reports.

This great vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Company block-wide department store and surrounding Herald Square in 1905. The view is from atop a building across 6th Avenue looking west, with 35th Street on the right and 34th Street just barely showing on the left. Here is a Google StreetView showing a similar view from the ground today:

Check out the accompanying article on Stuff Nobody Cares About for analysis of the vintage photograph.