“I Was There” tells personal stories highlighting a certain moment in history. In the premiere episode, we talk with Josh Alan Friedman, one of the only writers covering the beat of Times…
This segment of the Second Ave Subway was constructed in the 1970s underneath East Harlem. Construction was halted in 1975 due to the city's fiscal crisis, but was continued to be inspected…
This incredible vintage map shows a detailed rendering of the the City of New York (now just Manhattan) as it appeared back in 1879. Buildings and blocks are drawn to scale, and several…
“Each vase has a story to tell, if only you have the eyes to read it.” In this charming silent film, a drawing student’s daydream at The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings the ancient Greek…
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…
Check out this incredible vintage film restoration 1927, showing New York City street scenes all throughout Manhattan, including children playing on the street, vintage cars and street…
This great vintage film shows nearly 4-minutes of an uninterrupted drive from Downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn Heights over the Brooklyn Bridge in the early 1930s. Along the way, we get a…
Warps, wefts, heddles, and leashes: Learn how tapestries were made, across time and across cultures, in this mesmerizing short film. Follow artisans through the entire process, from dyeing…
This is an incredible photograph captured by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1906 that shows some street carts on Broad Street selling hotdogs and lemonade for pennies. Here is a Google…
