Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent upload to YouTube, Dj Hammers captures a ride…
This vintage photograph shows dozens of nearly identical black Ford automobiles in a slow-moving traffic jam along Queens Boulevard around 1933. The more things change, the more they stay…
These are, I believe, the earliest Kodachrome home movies that my grandfather Gustave Martens filmed with his 16mm camera. Naturally he chose to film friends, flowers, and family - -…
When the Queensboro Bridge first opened in 1909, the Queens neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria were relatively undeveloped. There were some industrial sites along the East River,…
Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is a large steel cantilevered-truss bridge spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, directly over Roosevelt Island.…
This vintage photograph shows the old TWA Terminal at New York City's JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Queens in 1962. Once the most futuristic building at the airport, the terminal…
Full version of the ad for NYCTA's service to the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Not only were the new picture window married pair baby blue and cream enameled St.…
Opening in June of 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is the only bridge spanning the East River that is not a suspension bridge, but rather a five-span cantilever truss. From opening day until…
This great vintage subway map shows the Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) subway lines as they appeared in 1938. These lines would later merge with the IRT and the BMT…
The team at historical website Knowol recently restored this excellent vintage map from the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The NYWF of 1939–1940 was the…
