All photos via Jennimaria Palomaki for Viewing NYC The Christmas lights in Dyker Heights, a small neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn between Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, are an annual holiday…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
Brooklyn Heights' Plymouth Church is an ordinary church with a few unordinary artifacts inside, one of which is a piece of the original Plymouth Rock. A piece of Plymouth Rock, located at…
Back in 2014, popular modern tech culture website The Verge published this great video and article telling the story of the found-and-lost Atlantic Avenue Tunnel underneath Brooklyn Heights…
This film, titled Rube and Mandy at Coney Island, was originally a silent film from 1903, the same year the original Luna Park opened to the public. The film was a comedic short produced by…
Vintage films of Manhattan are a dime-a-dozen, but rarely do we come across a full-length travelogue focusing on any of the other New York City boroughs. However, this vintage 16mm film,…
"Let's Get Lost at Coney Island" is an interesting vintage poster from 1991 that uses densely-packed illustrations of hundreds of interesting sub-scenes you might find at the beach. It…
This interesting vintage photograph shows the Fulton Street Elevated Line in 1915. Taken near the intersection of Fulton St. and Hoyt St., many of these older buildings exist in their same…
This fantastic video from over a century ago shows the grand opening of the Williamsburg Bridge on December 19th, 1903. It was restored and uploaded by YouTuber and historian Guy Jones.…
Recently shared by Instagramer @ironworkerlife, this great vintage photograph from the winter of 1962 shows the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, as seen from the Bay Ridge Side…
