Originally created in the mid-1990s, the Heritage Trails were a set of self-guided sightseeing locations in Lower Manhattan that included information you could read about each landmark and…
Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the…
These great vintage photographs from 1968 show the installation of the American Museum of Natural History's iconic 94-foot fiberglass and polyurethane blue whale. According to an article on…
Just the other day, we shared an incredible photograph showing the quick progression of the construction on the Empire State Building, and here we have another great vintage photograph from…
Imagine walking up to the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan and finding an office building instead of the world’s most famous concert hall. The 1960s nearly spelled the…
Local historical website Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this old vintage photograph from February 19th, 1938, showing a protest on Wall Street during the Great Depression era. New…
Berenice Abbott (1898 — 1991) was a prolific street photographer of early New York City. In this vintage photograph from about 1935, see the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian walkway, long before…
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, former associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, captured this great aerial photograph showing a low-flying DC-4 plane over Midtown…
Not that long ago, commuters would fly to and from New York City airports from the tops of tall skyscrapers in Midtown, including the former Pan-Am Building (now the MetLife Building). In…
Created by producer/director Carson Davidson in 1955, this incredible vintage film provides a portrait of the Third Avenue El in its final year. Once present up most of Manhattan's numbered…
