Captured from atop an old building on 56th or 57th street looking north, this great vintage photograph shows the Plaza Hotel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, Central Park, and 5th Avenue as it…
This incredible vintage video from nearly a century ago shows the hustle and bustle of the Theater District and Times Square as the camera films from a car driving down Broadway on December…
This great vintage photograph from 1984 shows Times Square looking towards the north end of the square, blanketed in snow from a small blizzard. Here is a Google StreetView of how the same…
On Feb. 20th, 1939, a Pro-Nazi Germany group here in America held a rally with 20,000 members inside Madison Square Garden. Known as the German American Bund, the group strongly supported…
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has a great digital collection titled American Cities which "depicts the city, its development, and its people and their way of life…
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is arguably the most famous Christmas Tree and lighting ceremony in the world. Now a major media production and concert with superstars, the ceremony…
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…
In 1968, Jefferson Airplane setup and performed sans permits on top of the Schuyler Hotel in Midtown on West 45th Street. In this vintage — and sometimes nausea inducing — handheld video,…
Grand Central Station is not only the name of the Post Office next door, but also the name of the old train station that sat on the site of where the current Grand Central Terminal sits now.…
It's been a quarter-century since the New York Rangers have won the Stanley Cup. Relive that year in this vintage CBS New York newsreel covering the team's championship parade in 1994. As…
