Wing Heung Noodle Co. is one of the last noodle factories in New York City’s Chinatown. For more than 50 years, Wing Heung has been churning out fresh wheat noodles, dumpling wrappers and…
The Bowery is one of only two roads in Manhattan that have no suffix. It's not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue, it's simply Bowery. Can you name the other? (Answer) In this vintage photograph…
Captured around late 1908 or early 1909, this fantastic vintage photograph shows the construction of the Manhattan Bridge over the East River. This shot was taken from Main Street, in…
This great vintage photograph from 1984 shows Dave's Restaurant, a classic New York Diner that existed on the southeast intersection of Broadway and Canal Street. While there used to be a…
Uploaded to OldSchoolCool by Redditor rachmaninoffkills, this great vintage photograph shows the southeast corner of Canal Street and Broadway on the SoHo/Tribeca border back in 1984. Here…
This great vintage photograph from the U.S. National Archives shows the "Lantern Side of Hester Street" in 1903. At the time, the immigrant-settled Lower East Side had a very large Jewish…
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…
This vintage photograph recently dug up by our friends at Forgotten New York shows the intersection of Bowery and Pell St., in Manhattan's Chinatown around 1964. Infrastructurally, there’s a…
The Bowery is one of only two roads in Manhattan that have no suffix. It's not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue, it's simply Bowery. Can you name the other? In this vintage shot from around…
Back in 1980, photographer Bud Glick moved from Milwaukee to the City to be a documentary photographer for the Museum of Chinese in America, then called "The New York Chinatown History…
