This great vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Company block-wide department store and surrounding Herald Square in 1905. The view is from atop a building across 6th Avenue looking…
This great vintage photograph from 1917 shows Times Square in Midtown, Manhattan, packed with automobiles and pedestrians along Broadway. An 1895 stage multiplex with three theaters, the…
With a new building constructed or replaced almost every year, the Lower Manhattan skyline is constantly under flux. In this informative animated video rendering from COMMERCIAL Café, see…
“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.” So begins the artist and writer Russell Connor’s meditative tour of public art in New York…
“I Was There” tells personal stories highlighting a certain moment in history. In the premiere episode, we talk with Josh Alan Friedman, one of the only writers covering the beat of Times…
This segment of the Second Ave Subway was constructed in the 1970s underneath East Harlem. Construction was halted in 1975 due to the city's fiscal crisis, but was continued to be inspected…
This incredible vintage map shows a detailed rendering of the the City of New York (now just Manhattan) as it appeared back in 1879. Buildings and blocks are drawn to scale, and several…
“Each vase has a story to tell, if only you have the eyes to read it.” In this charming silent film, a drawing student’s daydream at The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings the ancient Greek…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything in New York City in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run…
