Results for "1970s"

Home movie clip shows New York in 1960s we can see, Statue of Liberty Ferry, Scene street, Times Square, Trinity Church ,highlights are nighttime neon at Times Square, Video Restoration…

Like Times Square and Central Park, Madison Square Garden is a New York City icon. Here's a brief history of the home to the Knicks and Rangers.

For our latest mission, we placed a decal (designed in the style of the ubiquitous social distancing circles) that read “stand here for dance party” on the ground in Grand Army Plaza in…

This great vintage film from 1911 shows street scenes from SoHo, TriBeCa, Union Square, Flatiron District, Civic Center, and more. While the color and sound are not original, they were added…

Seed bombs, the "tree lady of Brooklyn," and the roots of urban gardening. […] New York City looked a lot different in the 1960s and 1970s. A sharp economic decline and white flight meant…

The Statue of Liberty is such a symbol of Americana, that often we forget it was cast, assembled and built in Paris years before it was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic and…

This incredible vintage tourism film from the early 1940s show off the signs and lights in Times Square and the Theater District with sound and full color. Check out the longer clip on Kino…

LZ 129 Hindenburg built by the Zeppelin company flies over Manhattan on May 6, 1937. A few hours later, the ship burst into flames in an attempt to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey

At the time, New York City had a population of 5.7 million - the population had doubled in just 30 years due to mass immigration. The city was developing rapidly, and more than a quarter of…

It's no secret that 1980's New York City was not a very nice place to be. The streets were filled with trash and graffiti, crime was rampant, public areas were underfunded and neglected. One…