Red Hook is the neighborhood on the western edge of Brooklyn that is bounded by the Buttermilk Channel, the Gowanus Canal, and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. It is one of the oldest settled…
Check out the Prospect Park Alliance to learn more about Brooklyn's crown jewel park, or the organization who helped turn it around from the 1980s lowpoint. Prospect Park Alliance, the…
Opened in 1950, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade sits directly over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and offers one of the best views in the City, looking out over the New York Harbor and Lower…
Rodriguez drove a cab from 1977 to 1985, and in the last two of those years, he was studying to be a photographer. He lost his first set of gear in a classic ’70s New York stabbing and…
Captured by the famous photographer Eugene de Salignac on April 24th, 1933, this incredible vintage photograph shows the view of lower Manhattan from the top of one of the Brooklyn Bridge's…
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 upload, DJ Hammers took a ride on the New York…
Berenice Abbott (1898 — 1991) was a prolific street photographer of early New York City. In this vintage photograph from about 1935, see the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian walkway, long before…
This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building in 1929, the year it finished construction and opened to the public. Once the tallest building in Brooklyn,…
The Seven Five is a full-length 2014 documentary from director Tiller Russell that explores the rampant police corruption in New York City in the 1980s, focusing mostly on the…
This great vintage photograph from the early 1960s shows the view from a car on the Brookyln-Queens Expressway while driving through Gowanus, Brooklyn, looking towards the Lower Manhattan…
