Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States so we would not be doing our part in honoring one of our Nation's great heroes without showing you a bit of MLK in New York City.…
Madonna has been making headlines and selling out stadiums for decades, but she wasn't always that big. Check out this vintage video of her performing at the Danceteria in Hell's Kitchen…
The Steel Strike of 1919 was ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers with the purpose of organizing the Steel Industry prior to World War I. Beginning in early…
The 3rd Avenue Elevated Train ("El") opened with service in Manhattan in 1878. Over the next 77 years, the 3rd Avenue "El" would provide rapid train transit fro anybody wishing to go from…
Vintage stock footage firm Periscope Films recently published this "re-discovered" home movie from the mid 1940's that features an amazing look at New York City during World War II. And as a…
This vintage photograph, published by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1905, shows the Financial District's Broad Street, looking North towards Wall St. For reference, here is how the same…
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…
Everybody has seen Marilyn Monroe's iconic flying skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent underneath her. Here instead is a more…
Here is an amazing shot taken by balloon from the Southern tip of Manhattan facing North over the Financial District. The built-up area in the top of the photograph is Wall Street, and the…
The New York Times Archives on Twitter is a great official New York Times account which posts photographs and newspaper clippings from the newspaper's vast collection of print archives. In a…
