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…
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…
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…
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…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. DNAinfo New York ⇒ Take a Ride Back…
Born and bred in New York City, photographer Langdon Clay developed a fascination with the City's lonely cars in the mid-1970s. Between 1974 and 1976, Clay hit the streets of New York…
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 incredible vintage footage from 1967 gives an aerial view starting up the Hudson heading down towards Lower Manahttan and the Statue of Liberty, then turning around and focusing on the…
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.…
The New York Police Department recently published an interesting self-promotional video titled The NYPD Is Keeping NYC Safe: A Look Back Through The Years in which they compare scenes of…
