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⁴ᴷ Motorman's Point of View - 1930s R1 from Coney Island to 53rd St-7th Ave
Watch This First Person View of a Subway's Trip From Coney Island to Manhattan
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Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. Hammers recently got a chance to film almost the entire…

Check Out This Vintage Bird's Eye View Map of Midtown Manhattan Circa 1963
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This hand illustrated birds eye view map of Midtown Manhattan was created by cartographer Hermann Bollmann for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens. One of the greatest cartographic…

Incredible Vintage Photo Showing a Pitch Black NYC During the Blackout of 1977
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The New York City blackout of 1977 saw a loss of power to most City residents and businesses, resulting in looting and other criminal activity, including arson. Caused by a series of…

October 3, 1979: An ebullient pontiff, thrown a ticker-tape parade by overjoyed New Yorkers, was shielded from the rain by an umbrella held by Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York. At a gathering at Madison Square Garden, Pope John Paul II was cheered by thousands of teenagers. “If he’d put that guitar around his neck,” said one headmaster of a Catholic high school, “the kids would have blown the roof right off the Garden.”
Vintage Photograph of Pope John Paul II's 1979 Ticker-Tape Parade Through NYC
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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…

NYC St. Paul's Chapel
Commercial Real Estate Knocking Out Boxing in NYC; 250-Year-Old St. Paul's Chapel Shuttering Temporarily; Algonquin Hotel's Famous Feline
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There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. Agorafy ⇒ Is Commercial Real Estate…

July 9, 1976: “Queen Elizabeth II came to New York yesterday to make speeches, shake hands, become an honorary citizen, wave to thousands of New Yorkers — and collect 279 years’ worth of back rent,” The Times reported. “The rent, 279 peppercorns in a Steuben glass container, was paid to Her Majesty on the steps of Trinity Church, at Broadway and Wall Street. The church received its charter from William III, an ancestor of the Queen, in 1697, for a nominal yearly rent of one peppercorn. Until today, the rent had never been paid.”
Vintage Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II Visiting New York City in 1976
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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…

The Tent of Tomorrow in the New York State Pavilion from the 1964-65 World’s Fair. At what is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. On the floor the largest map in the world at the time, a 130-by-166-foot map of New York State.
Vintage Photograph Shows Original Map Floor of the New York State Pavilion at 1964-65 World's Fair
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You would never know it now, but the floor of the "Tent of Tomorrow" in the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park used to have an impressive map across the entire floor,…

The Get Down | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix
Full-Length Series Trailer Released For Baz Luhrmann's Bronx Hip-Hop Origin Tale "The Get Down"
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A new original series from famed director Baz Luhrmann on Netflix titled The Get Down is all about the birth of hip-hop in South Bronx during the 1970s. "The Get Down is a mythic saga of how…

BLOCKS NYC Coloring Book: Music Scene in Greenwich Village
BLOCKS NYC, a New Coloring Book Featuring Famous Greenwich Village Album Cover Shots From 60s and 70s
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BLOCKS NYC is a cool new coloring book for adults featuring famous album covers taken in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and 1970s. The BLOCKS NYC Colouring Book includes artist illustrated…

Vintage Photograph Shows Construction of Union Square Subway Station on October 20th, 1903
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Captured on October 20th, 1903, this incredible vintage photograph shows the Union Square subway station under construction. Union Square station was built as part of the City's first major…