If you thought Sunday's 1954 Columbus Circle Photograph was special, wait until you check out this one… Snapped sometime in 1907 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, this amazing stitched panorama of…
The Astolat Dollhouse Castle is an $8.5 million dollhouse filled with incredible miniature art and valuables. When you break it all down, the dollhouse is the most expensive piece of real…
The large, red letters on Midtown's Essex House have been visible from Central Park since the 1930s. In this video from Switch Media, watch as the team from American Signcrafters explains…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
Our friends at local history site Ephemeral New York rceently dug up this great vintage photograph showing three women washing clothing in the Central Park Lake during a drought, on "Dry…
When it opened in April of 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in an isolated section of Central Park. This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the humble beginnings of…
Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the…
It's no secret that 1980's New York City was not a very nice place to be. The streets were filled with trash and graffiti, crime was rampant, public areas were underfunded and neglected. One…
This great vintage aerial photograph from 1927 shows Midtown, the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, and Central Park from above. Captured from around Park Avenue and the high 30s, the wide…
The abandoned bathhouse inside the Allen Mall on Allen and Delancey is in the process of being converted to a commercial food stall. But before it can be used for food, the dirty, asbestos…
