Artist Jane Dickson lived and worked in Times Square during the late 1970s and ‘80s, capturing what she saw and experienced through drawings, paintings, and photography. With the release of…
YouTuber trainluvr recently came across a pile of old VHS tapes in the garbage of his/her apartment building and saved them, letting us get a glimpse into local television ads from 1977…
The clash between big business elites and green-seeking environmentalists is not a 21st century development. Back in 1974, plans to turn Manhattan’s West Side into Westway, a waterfront…
Fantastic shots of New York 1970s, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, video Restoration Process: ✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second ✔ Image boosted up to HD ✔ color…
Uploaded to YouTube by Lt Mojo Risin, this great vintage film shows the gritty streets of New York City in the 1970s along with San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. The music featured in…
News from Home is a 1976 documentary created by filmmaker Chantal Akerman that uses scenes of the City as a backdrop for the reading of letters written to the filmmaker from her Mother while…
Our friends over at Curbed recently interviewed production designer Bill Groom about recreating a gritty 1970s New York City for the hit HBO show Vinyl. The New York City of today is very…
Vinyl is a new HBO drama that is based on the 1970s music scene in New York City. From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride…
Incredibly restored footage of aerial views of New York City from the 1930s. Includes shots of battleships in the Hudson River, views of several iconic skyscrapers such as the Woolworth…
AbukusPlace recently put together this great roundup of street photography from an unknown photographer showing the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick back in the early 1980s.
