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This great vintage film from the 1930s shows a drove through Central Park, down 5th Avenue and through Times Square, and own Park Avenue near Grand Central. While the color and sound are not…

Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is a large steel cantilevered-truss bridge spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, directly over Roosevelt Island.…

The New York State Barge Canal, originally known as the Erie Canal, was first completed in 1825 to provide a navigable water route between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes. It played a…

From the epic halls of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim, New York City is home to some of the most famous museums in the world, each one looking…

With video cameras getting smaller and more sophisticated, dashcam videos are ubiquitous nowadays. Back in 1900s however, can you imagine the size of the video camera mounted on the "dash"…

Ever noticed the tiled walls in subways and wondered why they’re there? It’s not just about style—it’s about light, cleanliness, and early 20th-century problem-solving. In this video, we…

This vintage photograph shows the corner of West 114th Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem back in 1910. At the time, this impressive building belonged to Ansche Chesed Synagogue, however the…

Cole Thompson runs a fantastic local blog titled My Inwood which is, you guessed it, all about Manhattan's Inwood Neighborhood. In this recent video, Thompson shares a collection of dozens…

A collection of early images that show the construction and evolution of the New York City subways from 1900.

“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.” So begins the artist and writer Russell Connor’s meditative tour of public art in New York…