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…
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…
In the 1960s, thousands of yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs were adhered to buildings in New York City. Now the city has quietly begun removing some of the corroding signs, saying many…
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…
Wonder Wheel is a new movie from writer/director Woody Allen that is set in 1950s Coney Island, at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, one of the neighborhoods most famous attractions. Starring actors…
Since the early 1960s, the large East River island we know today as Randalls Island used to be three completely separate islands. In this vintage photograph from 1948, take a peek at…
AstroLand was an amusement park on Coney Island that opened in 1962 and lasted nearly 50 years until its closing in 2008. This 'astro-tubular' vintage commercial from the early 1980s shows…
Count Basie was a famous Jazz pianist, organist, band leader and composer. Basie started playing in the 1920s, performing at all the local Harlem jazz clubs. In this vintage film from 1948,…
This vintage photograph from the late 1950s shows both the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge in one capture. Snapped looking West on Plymouth Street and Jay St, here is a Google…
Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach has been a destination for local beachgoers for over a century. From when it opened in 1877, until the Coney Island amusement parks were built in the early 1900s,…
