This vintage photo from 1899 shows the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. It lasted for a few decades until sold off to be demolished, later becoming the site for…
This amazing vintage photo was snapped on March 3rd, 1926. It shows a lively and crowded Nassau Street in the Financial District, looking south from Fulton Street down to John Street. Here…
Edit 02/03/2016 2:56pm After hearing from the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, it appears that Viewing NYC readers are not to see this preview image photo. So, in full compliance with the…
This 1933 map illustrated by cartoonist Simms Campbell shows the vibrant nightlife of a Jazz-age Harlem. IF NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps, then this map shows you where it used to…
The United Palace in Washington Heights is one of the most stunning theaters in the World. Built in 1930 as a vaudeville house and premier movie theater, the theater's glory years were brief…
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…
This vintage photograph was snapped in the 1940s near the corner of 51st Street and 5th Avenue, looking North. Here is a Google Street View of what the same view looks like today.
The author behind the excellent blog Livin' The High Line recently came across some amazing vintage footage from the 1930s showing street locomotives and the Urban Cowboys of pre-High Line…
The Bowery is one of only two roads in Manhattan that have no suffix. It's not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue, it's simply Bowery. Can you name the other? In this vintage shot from around…
