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…
This great vintage photograph from 1903 shows the view looking north up Broadway from West 39th Street towards the Times Building and Hotel Astor. Here is a Google StreetView of how the view…
Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the…
On December 17th, 1900, Ellis Island opened the doors to the iconic, main immigration building for the first time. Though the island had processed immigrants since 1892, the massive building…
In this video from TIME, learn the story behind the iconic New York City photograph showing a row of construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 800 feet in the air while building 30…
This vintage photograph recently dug up by our friends at Forgotten New York shows the intersection of Bowery and Pell St., in Manhattan's Chinatown around 1964. Infrastructurally, there’s a…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, and while the building itself hasn't changed much, the surrounding area of Midtown definitely has. In…
This amazing vintage photograph shows West Street along the Hudson River, looking North from Cortland Street at the New York Marine Terminals and boathouses that lines the docks at that…
Here are two photograph showing roughly the same view from the upper floors of the Empire State Building 75 years apart showing a drastically changed skyline. The black and white photograph…
Eugene de Salignac was the official photographer of the NYC Department of Bridges from 1906 to 1934. During that time, Salignac captured over 20,000 photos as large, glass-plate negatives…
