The Bowery is one of only two roads in Manhattan that have no suffix. It's not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue, it's simply Bowery. Can you name the other? In this vintage shot from around…
The author behind the excellent blog Livin' The High Line recently came across some amazing vintage footage from the 1930s showing street locomotives and the Urban Cowboys of pre-High Line…
This vintage photograph was snapped in the 1940s near the corner of 51st Street and 5th Avenue, looking North. Here is a Google Street View of what the same view looks like today.
Count Basie was a famous Jazz pianist, organist, band leader and composer. Basie started playing in the 1920s, performing at all the local Harlem jazz clubs. In this vintage film from 1948,…
You can now live in this 1920s Riverdale castle literally built by a Christian cult for Jesus to live in once resurrected. It was built in 1928 by Genevieve Ludlow Griscom, the wife of…
YouTuber Jeff Altman recently uploaded this amazing footage that his grandfather took when visiting NYC back in 1957. It's a great peek at the City over 50 years ago, and it's even in color.…
The Pierre Hotel is one of the City's fanciest. Lining Central Park East on the Upper West Side, the hotel and building has an interesting history, outlined here by television producer Burt…
These two amazing vintage photographs from 1906 show the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. In them you can see the old trollies that used to run…
The United Palace in Washington Heights is one of the most stunning theaters in the World. Built in 1930 as a vaudeville house and premier movie theater, the theater's glory years were brief…
This 1933 map illustrated by cartoonist Simms Campbell shows the vibrant nightlife of a Jazz-age Harlem. IF NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps, then this map shows you where it used to…
