Today Architectural Digest returns to New York City for an insightful walking tour of the Upper East Side with architect Nicholas Potts. From Central Park and The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Duke Mansion and the Art Deco Carlyle Hotel, come along with Nick as he explores the wealth of history and architectural details waiting to be rediscovered.

Train enthusiast Dj Hammers got a chance to film the entire length of a subway line, as seen by the conductor through the front window of the train. It's a fantastic look at the tunnels, and a side of the subway system that we rarely get to see.

FULL footage from the Driver's perspective of a Nostalgia Trip on the Low-V cars throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. This footage will be used to assist in the creation of content for the train simulator program used at the NY Transit Museum, and as B-Roll footage for future content.

The full video is over 1 hour 15 minutes long, and includes shots of the old City Hall station turnaround, underground tunnels, elevated lines, and tons of stations.

Cooper Square is the lesser-known public space (that has been undergoing eternal construction) just south of Cooper Union's main building and Astor Place. It sits on the border of NoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side and Bowery all at once.

In this vintage postcard from 1893, see what the square used to look like at night, when the 3rd Ave Elevated ran right through it. For comparison, here is a Google StreetView from approximately the same vantage point of how Cooper Square looks today.

It’s a carnival of history. On the right are modest Federal-style homes with dormer windows, built in the 1820s. Cooper Union’s 1858 Great Hall hosted presidential hopefuls going back to Abraham Lincoln. A sketchier, pre-boutique hotel Cooper Square in late 1980s was also the site of a peddlers’ market of sorts, where the desperate put out anything they could find (or steal) for sale in an empty parking lot.