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The High Bridge
[WATCH] Slideshow of Vintage Photographs Comparing NYC's Oldest Bridge Over the Past 150 Years
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Technically speaking, The Bronx-Manhattan High Bridge is the oldest in the City, dating back to 1848. It was built 35 years before the Brooklyn Bridge, but portions of it have been replaced…

Around The Flatiron Building, 1906
This Vintage Photograph Shows Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park in 1906
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The Flatiron Building opened in 1902 and is one of the most significant architectural wonders in New York City. Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage…

Rockefeller Center under construction, New York City, 1932 | Rockefeller Center rises in mid-Manhattan. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc., N.Y., 1932. From the New York World-Telegram Collection at the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Library of Congress</a>. <a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=world-telegram&amp;m=tags&amp;w=76204898@N00&amp;s=int">More pictures from the World-Telegram Collection</a> <b>[PD]</b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36071" rel="nofollow">This picture</a> is assumed to be in the public domain.
This Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Rockefeller Center Under Construction in 1932
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In this vintage aerial photograph taken by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc. in 1932, you can see just how massive the project was at the time. 30 Rockefeller Center was…

Inwood, 1933, "A Reporter at Large"
[WATCH] Reading of a 1933 Vintage Newspaper Article on Inwood: "A Reporter at Large"
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Cole Thompson runs a fantastic local blog titled My Inwood which is, you guessed it, all about Manhattan's Inwood Neighborhood. In this recent video, Thompson reads an article from 1933 in…

Times Square Was Once The Red Light District of New York City
[REPOST] Times Square Was Once The Red Light District of New York City
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“I Was There” tells personal stories highlighting a certain moment in history. In the premiere episode, we talk with Josh Alan Friedman, one of the only writers covering the beat of Times…

Times Square Was Once The Red Light District of New York City
[WATCH] Times Square Was Once The Red Light District of New York City
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“I Was There” tells personal stories highlighting a certain moment in history. In the premiere episode, we talk with Josh Alan Friedman, one of the only writers covering the beat of Times…

Unfinished Second Ave Subway Tunnel
[WATCH] Check Out This (Probably Illegal) Walk Through the Unfinished Second Ave Subway Phase II Tunnel
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This segment of the Second Ave Subway was constructed in the 1970s underneath East Harlem. Construction was halted in 1975 due to the city's fiscal crisis, but was continued to be inspected…

This Interactive Data Visualization Shows the Age of Manhattan's Buildings
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Data Scientist Kate Schaub recently created this great interactive visualization showing how old Manhattan buildings are. Check it out!

“A street-cleaning cart in New York City, where there were said to be 450 of them in 1915. Earlier that year, The Times reported on other improvements to the city’s streets, at a meeting held at Columbia University by the three borough presidents and John T. Fetherston, street-cleaning commissioner. The four men “discussed the planning, construction and maintenance of public highways and public works and street cleaning before an audience including many of the prettiest young women students in the university,” The Times reported. The audience was attentive, “but the women particularly became enthusiastic when President Marks told them of his fight for free public markets,” the report continued. Alas, that topic was not on the agenda. Boasting about the borough with the most asphalt (Brooklyn), however, was.”
This Vintage Photograph of a Horse Drawn New York Street Cleaning Cart Circa 1915
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

Extended Rapid Transit Facilities, New York City Transit System, 1939
[REPOST] Vintage Transit Plan Subway Map From 1939 Shows a Different Way to Connect New York City
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This interesting proposed transit plan from 1939 shows all 5 New York City boroughs interconnected in a way that never materialized. Check out the way the N line in Queens hits the…