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…
In this vintage photograph snapped in 1908 from an unknown photographer, we see some City workers digging in the street with a young, barefoot boy looking on. In 1the 1900's, this area was…
True Yorkers is a video series which interviews long-term New York residents about "Old New York" and the way things used to be in the City during a time many refer to as the "Good Ol'…
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…
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.…
Check out this incredible vintage film restoration from about 1903, showing a black and white street scenes from an open-air market in lower Manhattan. A look into a busy lower class market…
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…
Beloved Lower East Sider Adam Purple passed away last year, leaving behind the memory of his incredible Garden of Eden community garden project on the LES in the 1970s and early 1980s. In…
11 & B is a low-budget and possibly homemade film project from "Loisaida Video Production" created back in the 1980s that documents Lower East Side culture through through its…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage photograph from 1905 showing the street market underneath the Williamsburg Bridge on the Lower East Side of…
