This amazing cartoon map pretty much sums up how I see the City today, 45 years after it was originally drawn. Everything to the North of Westchester is Canada, everything South of Staten…
Though incorrectly identifying Grand Central Terminal as Grand Central Station (the post office next door), TIME's Travel & Leisure site recently found some great vintage photographs…
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Naval Military base at Pearl Harbor. On December 8th, the day after, President Franklin D. Roosevelt…
Though kind of macabre, to celebrate the end of World War I in 1918, this massive pyramid was constructed near Grand Central Terminal using the helmets of captured and killed German…
This iconic New York photograph, captured by the late photographer Paul Himmel, features a pensive man looking out off the Brooklyn Bridge towards lower Manhattan. This photo is just one of…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
Harlem's City College of New York is the oldest college in the CUNY system, established in 1847. This vintage photograph from 1908 shows Shepard Hall, a neo-gothic masterpiece based on a…
Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach has been a destination for local beachgoers for over a century. From when it opened in 1877, until the Coney Island amusement parks were built in the early 1900s,…
Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett is perhaps best known for Bush Tower in Midtown, but he also designed some important City structures such as the massive New York City Criminal Courts…
Deno's Wonder Wheel is a famous attraction in Coney Island that has been family owned for three generations. The Vourderis family of Brooklyn has been keeping the wheel running for nearly…
