One of the world's most famous skyscrapers has just been through a major 10-year modernisation project. See New York City's 1930s icon has been updated for the modern age.
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"…
Originally created in the mid-1990s, the Heritage Trails were a set of self-guided sightseeing locations in Lower Manhattan that included information you could read about each landmark and…
This great compilation slide show of 1980s street photography from Berkeley photographer Janet Delaney shows a dirtier, grittier, yet quieter New York City in our Old New York days. Janet…
According to LinkedIn, monotonous grey cubicles are out and funky shared spaces are in. Inspired by social-business clubs of the 1920s, LinkedIn has created an office space that incorporates…
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"…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube…
In the 1920s, New York City faced a capacity crisis at Penn Station, leading the New Jersey legislature to form the North Jersey Transit Commission. Their 1926 report advocated for "through…
Looking strangely out of place on 42nd Street, this is Grand Central Station (formerly Terminal) in the early 1900s, after a renovation of the original 1871 structure—which had become too…
