Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, Good Afternoon!

by Matt Coneybeare

on Aug. 18, 2021 at 2:00 PM

at 2:00 PM on August 18, 2021

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

This Vintage Photograph Shows Manhattan's Pier 11 on East River in 1938

by Matt Coneybeare

on Aug. 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM

at 12:00 PM on August 18, 2021

This great vintage photograph from 1938 shows Pier 11 over the East River and the Lower Manhattan skyline. While most of the river's piers have been dismantled or filled in with landfill over the decades, Pier 11 still exists, though it has been rebuilt a few times. Here is a Google StreetView of how it looks from approximately the same spot today: