In a series titled Islands of the Undesirables on collaborative historical website Atlas Obscura, historian and journalist Bess Lovejoy highlights five of the New York islands where we have…
In a new video released by the MTA, bridge workers are seen inspecting and tagging a dozen Peregrine Falcon chicks that recently hatched atop the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Falcons and other…
The amazing short movie from 1928 features a crazy taxi cab driver navigating the chaotic streets of Manhattan. He narrowly avoids other automobiles and pedestrians, eventually getting…
This map, created and published in 1870 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Brooklyn and bits of Queens as seen from a birds eye view over New York Harbor. Zooming in, many…
Our friends at vintage photography site Vintage Everyday recently posted some great pics in an article titled Early Photos of Construction and Evolution of the NYC Subways. A collection of…
Yesterday, senior editor Kim Velsey of the New York Observer published a very interesting article titled The Social Commute: How the Big Schlep Is Changing the Way New Yorkers Live in which…
Back in 1980, photographer Bud Glick moved from Milwaukee to the City to be a documentary photographer for the Museum of Chinese in America, then called "The New York Chinatown History…
This fantastic video from 1903 was recently restored and uploaded by YouTuber Guy Jones. It shows a ferry boat transporting hopeful immigrants from their larger trans-Atlantic vessel onto…
Brooklyn native and amateur photographer George Bradford Brainerd was an engineer by trade, but has a passion for photography and natural history. From 1872 through 1887, he shot all around…
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…
