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…
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…
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…
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…
Local street photographer Meryl Meisler has a new exhibit titled LES YES!, displaying her photographs of the Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s, and presented in celebration of Lower…
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…
Lower East and Upper West is an interesting new photobook containing the vintage street photography of Jonathan Brand capturing the street life in the Manhattan neighborhoods from 1957…
This great vintage photograph from 1919 shows Delancey Street and the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge. At that time, there were trolley stations on both sides of the bridge,…
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,…
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…
