Vintage stock footage firm Periscope Films recently published this "re-discovered" home movie from the mid 1940's that features an amazing look at New York City during World War II. And as a…
The Steel Strike of 1919 was ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers with the purpose of organizing the Steel Industry prior to World War I. Beginning in early…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square built, was once the home of The New York Times. It was completed in 1904 and the Times stayed there for…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, two years prior to this photograph in 1913. The Library and Bryant Park behind sit on 5th Ave. and 42nd…
The 3rd Avenue Elevated Train ("El") opened with service in Manhattan in 1878. Over the next 77 years, the 3rd Avenue "El" would provide rapid train transit fro anybody wishing to go from…
In what was probably considered to be an "Action Film" back in the 1920's, this short video above shows a horsecar plowing through parts of a busy Manhattan, narrowly avoiding pedestrians,…
Not that long ago, commuters would fly to and from New York City airports from the tops of tall skyscrapers in Midtown, including the former Pan-Am Building (now the MetLife Building). In…
Posted recently on reddit to Old School Cool, this great vintage photograph showing an officer in the NYPD playing Duck Duck Goose on the Harlem streets with a group of children. The photo…
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…
The Statue of Liberty is such a symbol of Americana, that often we forget it was cast, assembled and built in Paris years before it was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic and…
