Results for "1970s"

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…

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…

Captured by iconic New York City street photographer Arthur Felig (better known as Weegee), this fun vintage photograph shows a bunch of kids playing in the spray of an opened fire hydrant…

Captured by photojournalist Dan Budnik in 1976, this great vintage photograph shows the busy clothing shops that used to line Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For decades,…

This great vintage photograph from June, 1936, shows two men chatting on the stoop of 133 Avenue D on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At that time, the storefronts were occupied by a coffee…

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…

Recently dug up by our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About, this great 117-year-old gloomy photo shows the Williamsburg Bridge under construction in 1901, as seen from on board a boat on the…