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…
A colorful 40-by-18½-foot mural by the late mosaic artist Max Spivak was uncovered recently behind some paneling in a Midtown office tower's lobby. […] renovation crews stripped away a false…
While this map is named "Wonders of New York", it is really an illustrated map of over 300 interesting attractions in Manhattan from the 1950s. The map was designed and illustrated by…
This great 28 minute short film features tons of still photographs from 1968 stitched together as a cohesive walk from the Brooklyn Bridge, up Broadway, then ending at the Central Park lake,…
Eugene de Salignac was the official photographer of the NYC Department of Bridges from 1906 to 1934. During that time, Salignac captured over 20,000 photos as large, glass-plate negatives…
