In the 1920s, New York City faced a capacity crisis at Penn Station, leading the New Jersey legislature to form the North Jersey Transit Commission. Their 1926 report advocated for "through…
The video documents New York City's struggles in the 1970s, a decade marked by economic collapse, rising crime, and widespread urban decay. Factories closed, jobs vanished, and a phenomenon…
The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…
Street art has always taken center stage in the Lower East Side. Every block has dozens of painted murals on building exteriors, storefront gates and public utility spaces. Here is a short…
Colorization artist Dave Hart recently took this great vintage photograph, showing a Jewish Market on the Lower East Side around 1895, and applied his magic to it, presenting a street scene…
The Lower East Side's Tenement Museum is one of New York City's more fascinating museums, giving you a peek into tenement life from the mid 19th to mid 20th centuries. Normally, the Tenement…
This map, created and published in 1875 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Governors Island, Brooklyn and bits of New Jersey as seen from a birds eye view over Hoboken.…
This map, created and published in 1870 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Brooklyn and bits of Queens as seen from a birds eye view over New York Harbor. Zooming in, many…
I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York 1955, Third Avenue Elevated (sometimes abbreviated to Third Avenue El) was an overhead subway line in the borough…
Local pro photographers James and Karla Murray have a YouTube series in which they explore neighborhoods around New York City from their unique perspective. In this recent episode, watch as…
