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…
In this vintage photograph snapped in 1908 from an unknown photographer, we see some City workers digging in the street with a young, barefoot boy looking on. In 1the 1900's, this area was…
True Yorkers is a video series which interviews long-term New York residents about "Old New York" and the way things used to be in the City during a time many refer to as the "Good Ol'…
This is an amazing photograph looking North across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens around 1922. Because the photo was captured from so high up, it is tough to make out specific…
The current New York City bus system was created by the MTA in 1953, but buses have been around the City for much longer than that. The bus system in New York dates back as early as the…
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…
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…
This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Empire State Building and its surrounding area looking northwest in the Fall of 1972. Captured only 47 years ago by photographer James Doane…
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…
