Recently obtained a batch of old Crescent picture books from a popular internet auction site. Amongst them is this 1978 edition of the New York City entry in the 'A Picture Book to Remember…
The Staten Island Ferry transports 22 million people per year with an average of 70,000 passengers per day on weekdays. Ferry service of some sort has existed between St. George on Staten…
Spokane photographer Josh Burdick recently found some old slides from his father's trip to the City back in 1967. He digitized them, cleaned them up, added a ridiculously large watermark,…
This vintage film from 1903 features a water ride that used to exist at Luna Park called "Shoot-the-Chutes." The camera was positioned to view the shoot-the-chutes concession from the best…
From Wikipedia: "Harlem Desire" is a single by Europop duo London Boys. It was originally released in 1987 to limited success. As a result the single was released again in 1989 and featured…
New York City has also been a glamorous destination—and we've got proof. Whether visiting the noticeably tech-less Times Square, the somewhat newer Brooklyn Bridge, or the better-dressed…
Graffiti Rock was an early 80's idea to make a hip-hop version of the popular music and dance programs Soul Train and American Bandstand. It only had one episode, a pilot, that aired on WPIX…
A recent article on the New York Times' Lens blog has a great collection of vintage photographs from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s when abandoned cars littered the sides of nearly every street in…
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…
The Hippodrome Theater operated as a state-of-the-art theater in the Theater District from 1905 up until 1939. It was called the world's largest theatre by its builders and had a seating…
