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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
This incredible video from October 1934 captured street scenes throughout the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a neighborhood that has historically been the first stop for immigrants…
The Lo-Down reader Esther Marlowe recently shared some vintage photos from 1969 captured on the Lower East Side, specifically Delancey Street, Essex Street and Orchard Street. There was a…
