From AM New York: The New York City cab is more than just a car that happens to be painted yellow. Born of the hardscrabble ambitions of poor and immigrant workers in the 19th century, the…
In this vintage photograph snapped in 1908 from an unknown photographer, we see some City workers digging in the street with a young, barefoot boy looking on. In 1the 1900's, this area was…
While it may be tacky to refer to our City as The Big Apple, and it's really something only tourists do, in the not-so-distant past locals were proud to call it as such. How did it get that…
Brooklyn photographer Samuel Gottscho is well known for his New York City photography in the 1930's. We have featured his photos on Viewing NYC a few times before, and now we have this gem…
Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in the deep south — Brooklyn's deep south that is. It sits just north of Brighton Beach and has a feeling of half-suburb, half-ocean town. The neighborhood…
Here is a fantastic photograph captured from the corner of Mott and Mosco Streets in Chinatown by an unknown photographer around 1900. For comparison, here is how it looks today. This photo…
Photographer William Meyers is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal since 2008, but before that he spent a lot of time capturing the beauty often overlooked in the outer boroughs…
On March 6th, 1912, the very first Oreo was sold to a man from Hoboken out of a 9th Ave. factory owned by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). Today, 103 years later, that very same…
The current New York City bus system was created by the MTA in 1953, but buses have been around the City for much longer than that. The bus system in New York dates back as early as the…
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series is quite realistic, but doesn't actually occur in any real city. In order to make the games more like real life, software engineers and code tweakers…
