This great vintage photograph from around 1915 shows the view looking west from the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge. The most noticeable structure is the three-facaded Manhattan…
This amazing vintage photograph shows West Street along the Hudson River, looking North from Cortland Street at the New York Marine Terminals and boathouses that lines the docks at that…
The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker. They got them in 'roughnecks' - hardened men who worked without safety harnesses, hard hats or even bathroom…
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…
