The Big Apple Circus returns to the Big Top at Lincoln Center for the company's 38th season with the World Premiere of its all-new show, The Grand Tour. The GrandTour transports audiences to…
Chilean-born photographer Camilo José Vergara was working on a graduate degree at Columbia University in the early 1970's. Vergara spent his time in the City photographing as much as he…
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 Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…
Ephemeral New York is a site that seeks to chronicle "an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts." In a recent post, the site shows a vintage postcard showing a colorized…
Thanks to The New York Public Library Digital Collections, the public has access to thousands of images of New York City from the 1870’s to the 1970’s. Today we’re sharing some of our…
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, former associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, snapped this incredible aerial shot of a street in the Garment District around 1930.…
Joes Ades was a well-known street character in the the 1990s and 2000s on the streets of New York City. Better known as Mr. Peeler, Ades would sell one thing and one thing only: potato (and…
Courtesy of the Thames TV program "Wish You Were Here..?" the 7 minutes will take you all over Manhattan in the year 1974—from high above the Empire State Building to a humble lunch counter…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. ArchDaily ⇒ Proposal for New York…
