Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is a large steel cantilevered-truss bridge spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, directly over Roosevelt Island. Carrying cars, buses, and pedestrians with two layers of road, the bridge is one of the busiest in the City. Captured by famous photographer Eugene de Salignac, this vintage photograph shows crowded pedestrian walkway over the bridge the year in opened to the public.

Astro West is an Upper West Side shop near the American Museum of Natural History that has been selling rocks, gems, minerals, fossils, meteorites and crystals since 1961. Inside the shop, there is a special machine which uses a heavy-duty chain to crack open geodes, revealing the crystals inside. Check it out in this video from our friends at Insider.

Since 1898, New York has been a world city. And since 1918, it has often been called "the world city." There have been numerous speed bumps along the way—including the Great Depression, white flight to the suburbs, the rise of the defense industry in the South and West, the financial crisis of 1975-76, the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic. What does the past suggest to us about the city’s current challenges? Will the epidemic do what previous crises could not do—end the primacy of the great metropolis?