This vintage photograph shows the quiet residential Queens neighborhood of Middle Village back in the early 1940s. Here’s what the street scene looked like on Metropolitan Avenue near 74th…
Did you know that underneath Manhattan's Bloomingdale's Department Store lies not one but two time capsules? Filled with treasures from a pristine signed Babe Ruth baseball worth at least…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent video he captures a vintage train used in the…
Cole Thompson runs a fantastic local blog titled My Inwood which is, you guessed it, all about Manhattan's Inwood Neighborhood. In this recent video, Thompson shares a collection of dozens…
Charles W. Cushman was an amateur photographer who shot thousands of photographs all around the world from 1938 to 1969. When Cushman passed, he bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome…
While this map is named "Wonders of New York", it is really an illustrated map of over 300 interesting attractions in Manhattan from the 1950s. The map was designed and illustrated by…
A colorful 40-by-18½-foot mural by the late mosaic artist Max Spivak was uncovered recently behind some paneling in a Midtown office tower's lobby. […] renovation crews stripped away a false…
This amazing film is a full color, 22-minute tourist video showing 1940's television viewers what they could expect from a visit to New York City. Public relations / educational film…
Our friends at vintage photography site Vintage Everyday recently posted some great pics in an article titled Early Photos of Construction and Evolution of the NYC Subways. A collection of…
This great vintage photograph shows the World Trade Center's Twin Towers under construction in 1970. Snapped by an unknown photographer from across the Hudson River in New Jersey, the photo…
