Local photographer and real estate agent Maggie Hopp captured these incredible color photograph of Times Square back in the 1970s, the essence of "Old New York." Experimenting in the 1970s…
Local photographer and real estate agent Maggie Hopp captured these incredible color photograph of Times Square back in the 1970s, the essence of "Old New York." Experimenting in the 1970s…
Artist Jane Dickson lived and worked in Times Square during the late 1970s and ‘80s, capturing what she saw and experienced through drawings, paintings, and photography. With the release of…
YouTuber trainluvr recently came across a pile of old VHS tapes in the garbage of his/her apartment building and saved them, letting us get a glimpse into local television ads from 1977…
The clash between big business elites and green-seeking environmentalists is not a 21st century development. Back in 1974, plans to turn Manhattan’s West Side into Westway, a waterfront…
News from Home is a 1976 documentary created by filmmaker Chantal Akerman that uses scenes of the City as a backdrop for the reading of letters written to the filmmaker from her Mother while…
Our friends over at Curbed recently interviewed production designer Bill Groom about recreating a gritty 1970s New York City for the hit HBO show Vinyl. The New York City of today is very…
Vinyl is a new HBO drama that is based on the 1970s music scene in New York City. From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride…
This great side-by-side comparison of Lower Manhattan shows an aerial photograph from 1930 versus a satellite image at relatively the same angle, from Google Earth. Aside from the skyline…
Snapped by Swiss photographer Willy Spiller in the 1970s and '80s, this great collection of vintage photographs really capture what it was like on the NEw York City subway during that time.…
