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Wonderful time travel in New York 1930s, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight While the color and sound are not original, they were added to the video to enhance the scene.…

This great vintage film from the 1930s shows a drove through Central Park, down 5th Avenue and through Times Square, and own Park Avenue near Grand Central. While the color and sound are not…

A long-forgotten section of Central Park called the Hallet Nature Sanctuary reopened to the public this week after being closed for nearly eight decades. Our friends at Gothamist recently…

Green Metropolis The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design is a new book by author and activist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, one of the women who spearheaded…

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…

Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything in New York City in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run…

For our latest mission, we placed a decal (designed in the style of the ubiquitous social distancing circles) that read “stand here for dance party” on the ground in Grand Army Plaza in…

New York is currently seeing a storm pass through with freezing rain and sleet. Yes, it sucks, but to remind you of how pretty the City is in the winter, here is a great vintage photograph…

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…

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…