Captured, edited, and uploaded to YouTube by Dutch historian, photographer, and videographer Michael Rogge, this short vintage film shows various street scenes shot all around Manhattan in…
Colorized by expert colorist Dana Keller, this great vintage photograph shows elephants in Luna Park, and the Coney Island promenade around 1907, the way it probably looked as if you were…
Captured on November 20th, 1965, this vintage photograph shows some New York City police officers escorting a bunch of straphangers through a dark subway tunnel after an electric outage…
Created by T. Sulman and Robert Loudan in 1876, this vintage illustrated map shows a birds-eye view of Lower Manhattan as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. Zooming in to the full version, you…
Check out this incredible vintage film restoration 1927, showing New York City street scenes all throughout Manhattan, including children playing on the street, vintage cars and street…
The 3rd Avenue Elevated Train ("El") opened with service in Manhattan in 1878. Over the next 77 years, the 3rd Avenue "El" would provide rapid train transit for anybody wishing to go from…
This fantastic vintage photograph from 1960 shows the northeast corner of Broadway and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Shown are two entrances to the 50 St A train subway station, in the…
Created in 1857, Central Park is one of the most well-known parks in the world. It is the busiest park, with over 40 million visitors per year, and appears in countless movies and television…
The New York Times recently published a great article titled Tracing the Waterways Beneath the Sidewalks of New York that included this great vintage map showing the original water courses…
This incredible aerial photograph was captured over Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor around 1906 by an unknown photographer. The tallest building in the world at the time, the Singer…
