Fort Tryon Park is a 66 acre park established in 1935 that sits at the Northern tip of Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. In this vintage photograph of the area captured two…
Found at a New Zealand garage sale by redditor pangium, this vintage documentary from 1998 highlights dog culture in Manhattan at that time. Enjoy! Years ago I was picking through the VHS…
Cole Thompson runs a fantastic local blog titled My Inwood which is, you guessed it, all about Manhattan's Inwood Neighborhood. In this recent video, Thompson reads an article from 1933 in…
This great vintage subway map shows the Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) subway lines as they appeared in 1938. These lines would later merge with the IRT and the BMT…
Captured around late 1908 or early 1909, this fantastic vintage photograph shows the construction of the Manhattan Bridge over the East River. This shot was taken from Main Street, in…
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, former associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, captured this great aerial photograph showing a low-flying DC-4 plane over Midtown…
Local historical website Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this old vintage photograph from February 19th, 1938, showing a protest on Wall Street during the Great Depression era. New…
When it opened in April of 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in an isolated section of Central Park. This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the humble beginnings of…
Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy is a new book from author and historian Elizabeth Winder that recounts actress Marilyn Monroe's time spent in New York City in late 1954 and 1955. In…
Amateur photographer and former porn actor John A. Mozzer was in New York City during the raunchy, dirty, "Old New York" and he loved it. In this series of photographs snapped while…
