Red Bull recently created this skate video showing local skaters in some classic NYC street spots. They talk about skating in spots like Brower Park in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows Park in…
Our friends over at Bowery Boogie recently found this great vintage film from the 1940s showing the luxurious check-in process of the (then) state-of-the-art La Guardia airport. Note how…
On this day 107 years ago, March 30th, 1909, the world's first double decker bridge opened up connecting the borough of Manhattan with the borough of Queens. The Queensboro Bridge started…
These are, I believe, the earliest Kodachrome home movies that my grandfather Gustave Martens filmed with his 16mm camera. Naturally he chose to film friends, flowers, and family - -…
Full version of the ad for NYCTA's service to the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Not only were the new picture window married pair baby blue and cream enameled St.…
This vintage photograph shows dozens of nearly identical black Ford automobiles in a slow-moving traffic jam along Queens Boulevard around 1933. The more things change, the more they stay…
New York City photographer Sam Shere captured much of the early 1900s through his lens for LIFE magazine and other major publications. In this series of photos from 1946, Shere set out to…
This vintage television commercial from the New York City Transit Authority (now the MTA) attempted to increase ridership by letting straphangers know they could get to the 1964-65 New York…
7 Train: Minutes to Midtown is a new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum's Grand Central Gallery Annex starting next week that features a collection of vintage photographs celebrating…
There are an estimated 550 exotic wild Monk Parrots living in Queens, according to the best guess by area ornithologists. Back in the 1960s, shipments of the exotic tropical birds from South…
