Vintage stock footage firm Periscope Films recently published this "re-discovered" home movie from the mid 1940's that features an amazing look at New York City during World War II. And as a…
The Steel Strike of 1919 was ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers with the purpose of organizing the Steel Industry prior to World War I. Beginning in early…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square built, was once the home of The New York Times. It was completed in 1904 and the Times stayed there for…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, two years prior to this photograph in 1913. The Library and Bryant Park behind sit on 5th Ave. and 42nd…
Not that long ago, commuters would fly to and from New York City airports from the tops of tall skyscrapers in Midtown, including the former Pan-Am Building (now the MetLife Building). In…
Posted recently on reddit to Old School Cool, this great vintage photograph showing an officer in the NYPD playing Duck Duck Goose on the Harlem streets with a group of children. The photo…
On a recent episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon highlights the recent NYPD slowdown. Then, in a segment paid for by the made-up "New Yorkers for a Shittier New York", watch…
New York City in 1979 was a very different kind, with a completely different feel to it. Get a small sense of what the City was like back then through these vintage photographs captured by…
It's 1983: Ed Koch is mayor, everybody's favorite movie is “Return of the Jedi,” and New York City's going through a street sign crisis. Think it’s hard to get around the city now? In the…
In honor of the upcoming 2015 New York International Auto Show happening April 3rd - 12th, the NY Daily News recently dug through their archives to find some of the best photos of the 1950's…
