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Vintage Photograph From 1925 Shows New York City Policeman Stopping Traffic for Cat and Kitten
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It was a sunny summer afternoon, July 29, 1925. Harry Warnecke, a photographer for the New York News, got a phone tip that a cat trying to carry its kittens home was tying up traffic because…

Museum Mile Festival 2016
Tuesday's Museum Mile Festival Offer Car-Free Streets, Musicians and Free Museum Admission
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From 2016 Museum Mile Festival. Video via Max Scheidhauer for Viewing NYC The Museum Mile Festival is an annual event in which the Upper East Side section of 5th Avenue from 82nd through…

Dec. 29, 1946: “It’s a lark!” exclaimed a passenger on one of the last trips of one of New York City’s last five double-decker, open-top buses. “It’s a shame they’re taking them away. During the summer months they’d be wonderful,” the woman added. “The Fifth Avenue Coach Company had ordered the use of the old open double-deckers discontinued as of 1 p.m.,” reported The Times, which also noted that the buses had been running there since 1907 and that “some of the old machines would be sent to Argentina and Cuba,” and others would be scrapped for parts.
Vintage Photograph From 1946 Shows One of City's Last Double Decker Bus Rides Through Washington Square Park
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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…

Around The Flatiron Building, 1906
Vintage Photograph Shows Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park in 1906
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The Flatiron Building opened in 1902 and is one of the most significant architectural wonders in New York City. Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage…

The Secret Atlantic Tunnel's 3rd Life at Le Boudoir Bar in Brooklyn | BK Stories
[VIDEO] Here's How New York City's Oldest Subway Tunnel is Living Its Third Life as a Speakeasy
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Le Boudoir is a cocktail bar that is tucked away in on of the most unique settings in all of New York: An abandoned subway tunnel. The oldest in New York, this once-lost subway tunnel was…

Vintage Photograph Shows a Busy Fifth Avenue Circa 1910
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This great vintage photograph show a busy Fifth Avenue and 51st Street looking north up the Avenue, full of pedestrians and horseless carriages. Here is a Google StreetView of what that…

The Deuce Premieres 9/10 (HBO)
[WATCH] Old New York and a Gritty Times Square Focus of New HBO Series, The Deuce
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The Deuce is an upcoming television series from HBO which focuses on the sex industry in Times Square during the 1970s and 80s. The series will star actors James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal,…

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Circa 1900
Vintage Photograph Shows Metropolitan Museum of Art's Humble Beginnings Circa 1900
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When it opened in April of 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in an isolated section of Central Park. This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the humble beginnings of…

Dry Day, on which New Yorkers were supposed to go shaveless, bathless and laundryless, will probably go down in history as 'Dirty Day' -- but not for these three cuties, Copacabana gals, who observed the water-saving ukase and at the same time stayed next to godliness. They are shown rub-a-dub-dubbing their undies, using the Central Park lake for a washtub, with soap and elbow grease combining with the ancient washboard to complete the job.
Vintage Photograph From 1949 Shows Three Women Doing Laundry in the Central Park Lake
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Our friends at local history site Ephemeral New York rceently dug up this great vintage photograph showing three women washing clothing in the Central Park Lake during a drought, on "Dry…

Curtis Silwa of the Guardian Angels on the Origins of the Group's Public Safety Work | BK Stories
Listen to Founder Curtis Sliwa Explain the Origins of the Guardian Angel's Public Safety Work
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Back in the early 1980s, when the New York City subway was a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden place, the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels would protect commuters by establish a presence on…