Polish-American Josef Hofmann was a virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher and inventor back in the early 20th century. In this photo from 1937, we see him playing to a sold out…
Brooklyn's Dead Horse Bay is a favorite shooting spot for filmmakers and videographers due to it's unreal juxtaposition of a beautiful, serene beach, with mountains of vintage trash, bottles…
This 1905 shot of Herald Square is much different than what it looks like today. You can see square's namesake, the original New York Herald Building, the Elevated 6th Avenue IRT line, old…
Helen Levitt was a photographer who based her career around City street photography. She grew up in Brooklyn and was greatly inspired by children’s play and chalk drawings. Levitt’s early…
To say the City has gone through some changes over the past 30 years would be an understatement. In this short video from Bushwick animator Julie Gratz and Tribeca Film, four 1980's…
Show Me a Hero is a new 6-part mini-series on HBO that tells the story of a young mayor who fights for low-income housing in a resistant middle-class neighborhood in Yonkers. In an America…
Here is a great vintage shot looking down upon a Columbus Circle that is very different from how it looks today. There is no Time Warner Center, no Trump International Hotel and Tower, no…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. Its grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
It's insanely hot and humid out in the City right now, and you are probably sweating as you read this. They say that you can cool yourself down mentally simply by thinking of cold things, so…
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…
