The Grand Central Oyster Bar, located on the lower level of Grand Central Terminal, opened in 1913 to much fanfare as a pleasant way to spend your time waiting for a train while at the…
The New York Public Library recently released hundreds of thousands of digital scans from their collection into the public domain, and then turned around and built this amazing site using…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
In 1894, New York University purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on their established campus in Lower Manhattan. The University Heights NYU campus…
Can you imagine riding down Broadway on a special sidewalk cart? In 1872, a proposal by Alfred Speer would have had the street lined with tracks and carts for the first moving sidewalk. Back…
Over 108 million vehicles travel over the George Washington Bridge each year, making it the busiest bridge in the City, the nation and even the world. In its first full year of operation,…
Photographer Ralph Morse (1917 – 2014) captured some of the most widely seen pictures of World War II, the United States space program, and sports events for LIFE magazine for several…
The grand entrance of the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda at the American Museum of Natural History is home to a massive 5,200 square foot installation of murals, originally completed in 1935 by…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
Though kind of macabre, to celebrate the end of World War I in 1918, this massive pyramid was constructed near Grand Central Terminal using the helmets of captured and killed German…
