Dating back to the 1950s, the Gowanus Batcave is one of the City's oldest graffiti havens. Similar to its Queens counterpart 5 Pointz, the Batcave is being demolished and converted into…
Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach has been a destination for local beachgoers for over a century. From when it opened in 1877, until the Coney Island amusement parks were built in the early 1900s,…
Back in the early 1980s, when the New York City subway was a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden place, the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels would protect commuters by establish a presence on…
Rodriguez drove a cab from 1977 to 1985, and in the last two of those years, he was studying to be a photographer. He lost his first set of gear in a classic ’70s New York stabbing and…
This fantastic video from The New Yorker combines old footage of New York City taken over the past 80 years and combines it with the modern day counterpart, side by side on a split screen.…
They call it 'the City that Never Sleeps' for a reason! For this list, we’ll be looking at some of the most notable real-life locations found in scary movies set in the Big Apple. Our…
It's no secret that the New York City area used to be inhabited by Native American tribes before the Dutch and English pushed them out. The tribes had been settled here for centuries if not…
Built in 1918, the Brooklyn Army Terminal (formerly known as the US Army Military Ocean Terminal) was the largest U.S. military supply base through World War II. It was used as an active…
Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in the deep south — Brooklyn's deep south that is. It sits just north of Brighton Beach and has a feeling of half-suburb, half-ocean town. The neighborhood…
Joker is a new movie coming this Fall that tells the origin story of the popular Batman comic book villain known as The Joker. Starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role, the film also…
