Martin Scorcese is no stranger when it comes to making movies about New York City gangsters. Revenge of the Green Dragons is one such gangster movie, but not as you would expect. The movie…
The MTA released this fantastic film entitled Rapid Transit to their official YouTube channel a few years back. The short 10 minute film seems to have been produced as a training/recruitment…
English graphic designer Oli Town recently created this great little stop motion video detailing a very brief demonstration of how the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels helped clean up the…
Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park have changed greatly over the years. Long before the some of City's wealthiest inhabitants took over, the area was full of artists and musicians,…
The Flatiron Building, originally called the Fuller Building, is so symbolic of New York City that it is tough to imagine a time when it wasn't there. But the building for which an entire…
Photographer Martha Cooper made a name for herself photographing the graffiti, subway and street scenes of the 70's and 80's for the New York Post. This shot, one of her more famous…
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series is quite realistic, but doesn't actually occur in any real city. In order to make the games more like real life, software engineers and code tweakers…
On March 6th, 1912, the very first Oreo was sold to a man from Hoboken out of a 9th Ave. factory owned by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). Today, 103 years later, that very same…
Photographer William Meyers is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal since 2008, but before that he spent a lot of time capturing the beauty often overlooked in the outer boroughs…
Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in the deep south — Brooklyn's deep south that is. It sits just north of Brighton Beach and has a feeling of half-suburb, half-ocean town. The neighborhood…
