When it opened in April of 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in an isolated section of Central Park. This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the humble beginnings of…
From 2016 Museum Mile Festival. Video via Max Scheidhauer for Viewing NYC The Museum Mile Festival is an annual event in which the Upper East Side section of 5th Avenue from 82nd through…
Rhythm & Power is a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York that explores how salsa dancing flourished in New York City as a social movement from the early 1960s to today.…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything in New York City in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run…
Operated by the New York Transit Museum, the Holiday Nostalgia Train is a subway train made of vintage cars dating back to the 1930s. Running a limited route open the public every Sunday in…
This great vintage photograph from around 1900 shows 5th Avenue looking south from 66th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Central Park is on the right, and several fancy townhouses…
King in New York is a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York which traces and highlights all of the civil rights leader's encounters with the City between the early 1950s…
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…
Many people don't know that world famous film director and Bronxite Stanley Kubrick got his start as a young street photographer on the streets of New York City in the 1940s. Fast forward to…
TGI Fridays is the kind of cookie-cutter, shopping mall, corporate chain restaurant that New Yorkers tend to avoid, but it wasn't always like this. In this short video from Great Big Story,…
