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…
English graphic designer Oli Town recently created this great little stop motion video detailing a very brief demonstration of how the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels helped clean up the…
Alvin Langdon Coburn was a photographer who spent much of his life photographing New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works appear in museums around the world…
David Bowie has inspired countless modern musicians with his innovative and exploratory musical style, his intellectual lyrics and shocking antics. Trent Reznor is one of the musicians…
The World For a Nickel is a 1962 short film which was made available to the public through the release of the Internet Archives 35mm Stock Footage Collection. It is an interesting peek into…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this vintage photograph captured from atop the old IRT Second Avenue Elevated ("El") train tracks. Despite being named for 2nd Avenue,…
Happy New Year! Times Square was just as packed last night as it was on December 31st, 1937. It does look a little cold, there doesn't appear to be any entertainment, and they are oddly…
Joker is a new movie coming this Fall that tells the origin story of the popular Batman comic book villain known as The Joker. Starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role, the film also…
These man on the street interviews were recorded by me a long time ago. 1979. At the time, the concept of an information society, and information economy, the end of the industrial age, was…
The New York Times recently acquired a collection of 2,924 slides that had been stored in an old office, untouched, for four decades. Originally captured as part of an NYC Parks Department…
