For ten months after it was completed in early 1930, the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan was the tallest in the world. In this fantastic vintage film from the Smithsonian's America in…
In this recent video from The New York Times, travelers are asked to identify the sounds in Penn Station. With careful listening, some of them hear the low-volume classical music that has…
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…
New York City considered building a 990 acre airport, covering Manhattan island. Proposed in 1946, the airport would have stretched 144 blocks from 24th to 71st street, and 9th Avenue to the…
Untapped Cities recently uncovered a 1927 Popular Science article detailing a proposal that would have ran a highway on top of a line of uniform 12-story buildings that ran from Battery City…
In this video uploaded by professional actor Emmett Fitzsimmons, a 1957 Times Square is presented long before the Disneyfication of recent years, and even a few decades before the crime and…
New York City in 1979 was a very different kind, with a completely different feel to it. Get a small sense of what the City was like back then through these vintage photographs captured by…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent upload to YouTube, Dj Hammers captures a ride…
Technically speaking, The Bronx-Manhattan High Bridge is the oldest in the City, dating back to 1848. It was built 35 years before the Brooklyn Bridge, but portions of it have been replaced…
Though incorrectly identifying Grand Central Terminal as Grand Central Station (the post office next door), TIME's Travel & Leisure site recently found some great vintage photographs…
