Ephemeral New York is a site that seeks to chronicle "an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts." In a recent post, the site shows a vintage postcard showing a colorized…
Madonna has been making headlines and selling out stadiums for decades, but she wasn't always that big. Check out this vintage home video recording of her performing at the Danceteria in…
This great vintage photograph shows the Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from across New York Harbor on Governors Island, around 1938. View looking north of Lower Manhattan’s Fiancial…
This fantastic video from January 9th, 1930 shows a day in the Upper West Side's Straus Park. It was restored and uploaded by YouTuber and historian Guy Jones and includes audio, something…
It was a sunny summer afternoon, July 29, 1925. Harry Warnecke, a photographer for the New York News, got a phone tip that a cat trying to carry its kittens home was tying up traffic because…
Berenice Abbott (1898 — 1991) was a prolific street photographer of early New York City. In this vintage photograph from about 1935, see a couple of storefronts on Broome Street in Soho.…
Ephemeral New York is a site that seeks to chronicle "an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts." In a recent post, the site shows a vintage postcard showing a colorized…
Not much is known of this performer, but apparently he was known as the "Human Squirrel" and would climb up cables attached off of very high buildings in order to fundraise for various…
Today's Gansevoort Market looks a lot different than when it was first established in 1884. “During the dark hours of early morning, as hundreds of wagons of all descriptions converge upon…
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…
