The Astolat Dollhouse Castle is an $8.5 million dollhouse filled with incredible miniature art and valuables. When you break it all down, the dollhouse is the most expensive piece of real…
This humorous pictorial map of the United States takes the perspective of a New Yorker, with New York shown in oversized proportion to the entire country. A parody of the self-centered - and…
Charles W. Cushman was an amateur photographer who shot thousands of photographs all around the world from 1938 to 1969. When Cushman passed, he bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome…
In 1894, New York University purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on their established campus in Lower Manhattan. The University Heights NYU campus…
Before the MetroCard, the New York City subway system used coin tokens for access. You would buy tokens at station booths, convenience stores and other convenient places. The Small Y tokens…
When Berkeley photographer Janet Delaney visited New York City throughout the 1980s, she would always have her favorite camera with her in order to capture the perfect New York City street…
On January 6th, 1915, New York City saw its first Subway disaster when a small electrical fire near Broadway and 55th Street caused a blackout under the surrounding midtown stations and…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. 6sqft ⇒ New Renderings and New Tenant…
