The large, red letters on Midtown's Essex House have been visible from Central Park since the 1930s. In this video from Switch Media, watch as the team from American Signcrafters explains…
For four consecutive Sundays in December, subway customers can catch the “Shoppers Special,” a train consisting of eight cars from the 1930s that ran along the lettered lines until the late…
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…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. As part of the Lower Manhattan art scene, he was welcomed amongst the most famous artists…
Queens is an often-overlooked borough for pizza, but it boasts a rich history of pizzerias, many of which have been operating since the 1960s and are still family-owned. Unlike the…
Veselka has been a staple of NYC’s East Village since the 1950s and is now run by third-generation owner Jason Birchard. The restaurant specializes in what they call “Ukrainian soul food,”…
The Queens–Midtown Tunnel was first planned in 1921, though the plans for the tunnel were modified over the following years. By the 1930s, the tunnel was being proposed as the Triborough…
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…
Our friends at Ephemeral New York recently dug up this great guide printed sometime in the 1960s which details exactly how to find the cross street for any Manhattan avenue's address. For…
Filmed in the mid/late 1990s and released in the year 2000, Dark Days is a fascinating documentary that follows several homeless people who lived in the abandoned "Freedom Tunnel" that runs…
