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How radical gardeners took back New York City
[WATCH] How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City
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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…

Let’s have a look at ritzy Fifth Avenue. All the postcards depict scenes from about 1900 – 1935. Fifth Avenue has a long association with wealth and privilege. Several of these postcards capture the shifting tide of commercial intrusion into a neighborhood once dominated by private residences. As we look over the avenue, the one thing you will notice is how much traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular, increased after the 1920’s. We’ll start south and work our way north.
Vintage Postcards from Old New York in the Early 20th Century
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Our history-loving friends over at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently compiled a great collection of vintage postcards dating from the very early 1900s up to the late 1930s. Each postcard…

The Blowing Bowler
MTA Arts & Design Brings Whimsical Animated History of Subway Cars to Fulton Center
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The Blowing Bowler is a cute animated video created by RedNoseStudio for the MTA Arts & Design department that features a man chasing after his hat as it blows past different decades of…

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[VIDEO] The Secret Gay History of the World Trade Center
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The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

Flashback Staten Island breweries
Flashback Staten Island: Video Slideshow Shows All of Staten Island's Old Breweries
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In this recent edition of Flashback Staten Island, Staten Island Advance editor Jan Somma-Hammel compiled a fantastic selection of vintage photographs showing all of the old breweries on the…

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New Website Releases Data on All New York City Marriages Between 1950 and 1995
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The NYC Marriage Index is a new website from data liberators Reclaim the Records which lets you scour through New York City's records on marriage licenses from 1950 through 1995. During that…

The Get Down | Sizzle [HD] | Netflix
Trailer Released for "The Get Down", a New Netflix Show About the Birth of Hiphop in the Bronx
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A new original series on Netflix titled The Get Down is all about the birth of hiphop in South Bronx during the 1970s. 1970s New York City – broken down, beaten up, violent, cash strapped,…

Ninety Years of Christmas in New York City, Then and Now | The New Yorker
Side-By-Side Video Compares Christmas in New York City, Then and Now
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In this great side-by-side comparison video from The New Yorker, watch Christmas scenes around Rockefeller Center from the 1930s through present day, and see how the annual Christmas Tree…

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Vintage Photographs of the New York City Easter Parade Between 1898 and 1933
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Our friends at Mashable recently compiled this great collection of vintage photographs of the Easter Parade, dating back over a century ago to 1898. In the late 1800s, New York's churches…

Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours (screenshot)
Interactive Map Lets You See Vintage and Modern Photos of Greenwich Village Historic District Side-by-Side
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Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours. Images of every one of the 2,200 buildings in the Greenwich Village Historic District, at the time of designation in 1969…