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…
Photographer William Meyers is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal since 2008, but before that he spent a lot of time capturing the beauty often overlooked in the outer boroughs…
A recent WNYC piece entitled The Lament of the C Train Rider discussed the aging trains on the C-line, most of which date back to 1964. It's an interesting read on why the C-line is so…
In a series titled Islands of the Undesirables on collaborative historical website Atlas Obscura, historian and journalist Bess Lovejoy highlights five of the New York islands where we have…
In 2013, filmmaker Amanda Murray created this amazing 20-minute documentary titled World Fair about the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage –…
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 - -…
You would never know it now, but the floor of the "Tent of Tomorrow" in the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park used to have an impressive map across the entire floor,…
Since the early 1960s, the large East River island we know today as Randalls Island used to be three completely separate islands. In this vintage photograph from 1948, take a peek at…
