Captured by iconic New York City street photographer Arthur Felig (better known as Weegee), this fun vintage photograph shows a bunch of kids playing in the spray of an opened fire hydrant…
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has a great digital collection titled American Cities which "depicts the city, its development, and its people and their way of life…
This map, created and published in 1875 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Governors Island, Brooklyn and bits of New Jersey as seen from a birds eye view over Hoboken.…
This map, created and published in 1870 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Brooklyn and bits of Queens as seen from a birds eye view over New York Harbor. Zooming in, many…
Colorization artist Dave Hart recently took this great vintage photograph, showing a Jewish Market on the Lower East Side around 1895, and applied his magic to it, presenting a street scene…
Colorization artist Dave Hart recently took this great vintage photograph, showing a Jewish Market on the Lower East Side around 1895, and applied his magic to it, presenting a street scene…
Recently dug up by our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About, this great 117-year-old gloomy photo shows the Williamsburg Bridge under construction in 1901, as seen from on board a boat on the…
Local historical blog Ephemeral New York recently dug up this great vintage ticket from 1903 in the Museum of the City of New York's Digital Collection. Shortly after the bridge opened, you…
In this short vintage homemade film from 1962-63 recently shared by Bowery Boogie, watch as a driver passes up Orchard Street on the Lower East Side, and peer into the past at the thriving…
Check out this incredible vintage film restoration from about 1903, showing a black and white street scenes from an open-air market in lower Manhattan. A look into a busy lower class market…
