This vintage film from 1993 doesn't quite feel vintage at all. Usually we associate older film with grainy video and audio quality, but this 23 year old footage is anything but. Right when…
For our latest mission, we placed a decal (designed in the style of the ubiquitous social distancing circles) that read “stand here for dance party” on the ground in Grand Army Plaza in…
This great vintage film from 1911 shows street scenes from SoHo, TriBeCa, Union Square, Flatiron District, Civic Center, and more. While the color and sound are not original, they were added…
Shirley Zussman is 106 years old and still practices as a sex therapist in New York City. She has been studying sex for so long that she was part of the famous Masters and Johnson research…
Meet Henry Arango, a.k.a. Adrian. Henry Arango began his performing career as Adrian when he was a teenager in Cuba in the 1950s. As Fidel Castro was coming to power, Adrian embarked to…
Seed bombs, the "tree lady of Brooklyn," and the roots of urban gardening. […] New York City looked a lot different in the 1960s and 1970s. A sharp economic decline and white flight meant…
This vintage photograph from 1925 shows New York Yankee Babe Ruth—perhaps the greatest player of all-time—posing in Yankees Stadium with a group of fans. According to the photo's uploader on…
The Statue of Liberty is such a symbol of Americana, that often we forget it was cast, assembled and built in Paris years before it was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic and…
This incredible vintage tourism film from the early 1940s show off the signs and lights in Times Square and the Theater District with sound and full color. Check out the longer clip on Kino…
Local musician and filmmaker David Hoffman has been shooting video around the City for decades. In this video recently uploaded to YouTube, Hoffman conducts a "Man on the Street" interview…