Eugene de Salignac was the official photographer of the NYC Department of Bridges from 1906 to 1934. During that time, Salignac captured over 20,000 photos as large, glass-plate negatives…
Everyone knows New York City is famous for its bagels, and it used to be that the City was the only place you could get a good one. Nowadays, you can get gourmet bagels just about everywhere…
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…
Brooklyn's Dead Horse Bay is a favorite shooting spot for filmmakers and videographers due to it's unreal juxtaposition of a beautiful, serene beach, with mountains of vintage trash, bottles…
This great vintage photograph shows the corner of West 10th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn back in 1903. The roller coaster in the photograph is the Loop the Loop, one of…
This map, created and published in 1875 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Governors Island, Brooklyn and bits of New Jersey as seen from a birds eye view over Hoboken.…
This great vintage photograph shows the corner of West 10th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn back in 1903. The roller coaster in the photograph is the Loop the Loop, one of…
This great vintage subway map shows the Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) subway lines as they appeared in 1938. These lines would later merge with the IRT and the BMT…
This vintage photograph shows Bay Parkway and 86th Street at the neighborhood intersections of Bath Beach, Gravesend, and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, sometime around 1920. Here is a Google…
This great vintage photograph from around 1944 shows the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Emmons Avenue, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. The trolley shown is the old Ocean…
