This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Empire State Building and its surrounding area looking northwest in the Fall of 1972. Captured only 47 years ago by photographer James Doane…
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…
If you thought Sunday's 1954 Columbus Circle Photograph was special, wait until you check out this one… Snapped sometime in 1907 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, this amazing stitched panorama of…
Restored footage from 1903 of pedestrians walking on the street near the Flatiron building in New York City on a windy day. A man loses his hat in the very windy conditions. Footage frame…
This great vintage photograph from 1926 shows a group of snow shovelers clearing waist-high snow on Fifth avenue after a blizzard in 1926. Check out the vintage truck with a snow plow…
If you thought Sunday's 1954 Columbus Circle Photograph was special, wait until you check out this one… Snapped sometime in 1907 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, this amazing stitched panorama of…
This is a vintage photograph from an unknown photographer dating back to about 1909. It shows the intersection of Broadway and 42nd St., right at the South end of Times Square. Before 1909,…
LIFE magazine photographer Andreas Feininger snapped this amazing aerial photograph of Midtown Manhattan in July of 1944. This shot amongst countless other, contributed to Feininger's…
Although it's commonly assumed to be a culinary creation of the South, the origin of fried chicken and waffles is traced back to Harlem, New York, where it first appeared on menus in the…
Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is a large steel cantilevered-truss bridge spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, directly over Roosevelt Island.…
