Edit 02/03/2016 2:56pm After hearing from the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, it appears that Viewing NYC readers are not to see this preview image photo. So, in full compliance with the…
The Roaring Twenties is an interesting interactive audio/visual website which display all of the vintage noise complaints in New York City nearly a century ago. These complaints are linked…
This 1933 map illustrated by cartoonist Simms Campbell shows the vibrant nightlife of a Jazz-age Harlem. IF NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps, then this map shows you where it used to…
The United Palace in Washington Heights is one of the most stunning theaters in the World. Built in 1930 as a vaudeville house and premier movie theater, the theater's glory years were brief…
These two amazing vintage photographs from 1906 show the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. In them you can see the old trollies that used to run…
The Pierre Hotel is one of the City's fanciest. Lining Central Park East on the Upper West Side, the hotel and building has an interesting history, outlined here by television producer Burt…
YouTuber Jeff Altman recently uploaded this amazing footage that his grandfather took when visiting NYC back in 1957. It's a great peek at the City over 50 years ago, and it's even in color.…
You can now live in this 1920s Riverdale castle literally built by a Christian cult for Jesus to live in once resurrected. It was built in 1928 by Genevieve Ludlow Griscom, the wife of…
Count Basie was a famous Jazz pianist, organist, band leader and composer. Basie started playing in the 1920s, performing at all the local Harlem jazz clubs. In this vintage film from 1948,…
