This great vintage photograph from 1926 shows a group of snow shovelers clearing waist-high snow on Fifth avenue after a blizzard in 1926. Check out the vintage truck with a snow plow…
Amateur photographer and former porn actor John A. Mozzer was in New York City during the raunchy, dirty, "Old New York" and he loved it. In this series of photographs snapped while…
On December 17th, 1900, Ellis Island opened the doors to the iconic, main immigration building for the first time. Though the island had processed immigrants since 1892, the massive building…
This full color vintage photograph of Times Square in 1948 shows two soldiers admiring the lights and taking in the New York City nightlife. According to the original uploader, the "rare…
Before the neighborhood and housing communities of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village were built on the east side of Manhattan in the 1940s, the "Gas House District" occupied the area.…
In this video from TIME, learn the story behind the iconic New York City photograph showing a row of construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 800 feet in the air while building 30…
This vintage photograph from September 10th, 1933, shows the Flatiron Building, looking south from the intersection of Broadway and 5th Avenue. Looking south from 26th Street and Fifth…
Reddit contributor and map designer Jake Berman recently made this modern map showing the subway and elevated train lines running through Manhattan as they appeared in 1939, the last year…
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…
Redditor welcometothezone recently uploaded this great vintage photograph showing two World War II battleships in the Hudson River, with dozens of spotlights searching the sky for imaginary…
