Our friends at the New York City Historical Blog recently published Ellis Island related pieces from their historical photograph collection. These photographs show off the island,…
Our current subway system, an amalgamation of the old privately owned Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company (BMT), and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit…
Photographer Martha Cooper made a name for herself photographing the graffiti, subway and street scenes of the 70's and 80's for the New York Post. This shot, one of her more famous…
The Flatiron Building, originally called the Fuller Building, is so symbolic of New York City that it is tough to imagine a time when it wasn't there. But the building for which an entire…
Street art has always taken center stage in the Lower East Side. Every block has dozens of painted murals on building exteriors, storefront gates and public utility spaces. Here is a short…
This is an amazing photograph looking North across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens around 1922. Because the photo was captured from so high up, it is tough to make out specific…
Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park have changed greatly over the years. Long before the some of City's wealthiest inhabitants took over, the area was full of artists and musicians,…
In this video uploaded by professional actor Emmett Fitzsimmons, a 1957 Times Square is presented long before the Disneyfication of recent years, and even a few decades before the crime and…
German photographer Franz Grasser who travelled to the United States in 1938, capturing some amazing photos of a pre-war New York City. Sadly, when he returned to Germany he was drafted into…
The New York Times Archives on Twitter is a great official New York Times account which posts photographs and newspaper clippings from the newspaper's vast collection of print archives. In a…
