Created in the 1920s, this amazing vintage film tells the history New York City, showing buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and attractions all throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. As a silent…
Located on the corner of 23rd Street and Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building was quite an impressive site. Completed in 1893 and designed by…
Uploaded to YouTube by MyFootage.com, this vintage video shows what life was like in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. A place away from the hustle and bustle of Downtown and Midtown, a place…
TGI Fridays is the kind of cookie-cutter, shopping mall, corporate chain restaurant that New Yorkers tend to avoid, but it wasn't always like this. In this short video from Great Big Story,…
Take a trip back to 1940s New York City in this incredible vintage film created to promote New York City tourism by showing off some of the City's most magnificent sites of the era.…
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 video he captures a vintage train from the…
Beloved Lower East Sider Adam Purple passed away last year, leaving behind the memory of his incredible Garden of Eden community garden project on the LES in the 1970s and early 1980s. In…
Before motion pictures were a thing, the pinnacle of visual technology was the Stereoscopic Image, a process where two images are produced of the same subject which have a very slightly…
Edit 02/03/2016 2:56pm After hearing from the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, it appears that Viewing NYC readers are not to see this preview image photo. So, in full compliance with the…
We haven't seen any snow stick this season, so if you are jonesing for some of that sweet, white powder, maybe this vintage film advertising a 4x4 snow plow truck clearing the way through…
