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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.

This great vintage film from 1911 shows street scenes from SoHo, TriBeCa, Union Square, Flatiron District, Civic Center, and more. While the color and sound are not original, they were added…

At the time, New York City had a population of 5.7 million - the population had doubled in just 30 years due to mass immigration. The city was developing rapidly, and more than a quarter of…

This great vintage photograph from the early 1900s shows the Third Avenue El passing over (what is now) Chinatown in Lower Manhattan. The Manhattan Municipal Building and the Singer Building…

This is an incredible photograph captured by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1906 that shows some street carts on Broad Street selling hotdogs and lemonade for pennies. Here is a Google…

This is an incredible photograph captured by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1906 that shows some street carts on Broad Street selling hotdogs and lemonade for pennies. Here is a Google…

Long before Charging Bull landed controversially at the Northern tip, long before the destruction of Fort Amsterdam which lied on its Southern face, long before it housed public protests…

This fantastic vintage photograph from around 1915 shows Broad Street looking North towards Wall Street, and the many curb brokers that traded throughout the day. Here is a Google Street…

On September 16, 1920 the Stock Exchange, the Sub-Treasury building (today’s Federal Hall), and most importantly J.P. Morgan’s headquarters on 23 Wall Street — were all very active when an…

From the early towers of the 1900s to the engineering marvels of today, the city has continually set the agenda for tall building design around the world. But while its skyline is now…