Back in 2015, time-lapse photographer Aaron Keigher created this amazing time lapse video featuring modern scenes at iconic New York City locations, all in black and white over a timeless…
On Feb. 1, 1989, Diana arrived via supersonic Concorde jet in New York for her first official visit without her then-husband Prince Charles. While the visit fueled rumors of the marital woes…
Filmed in East Harlem just after the end of World War II, “In the Street” is a dynamic, tender, and often humorous portrait of life in New York City: children dance and play in alleyways,…
In this episode of “I Was There”, VICE meets Chris Pape, a renowned artist known for his graffiti work in the “Freedom Tunnel”. The tunnel runs under Riverside Park in Manhattan and was used…
Our friends at vintage photography site Vintage Everyday recently posted some great pics in an article titled Early Photos of Construction and Evolution of the NYC Subways. A collection of…
Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett is perhaps best known for Bush Tower in Midtown, but he also designed some important City structures such as the massive New York City Criminal Courts…
Renzo Picasso was an Italian architect, engineer, and urban planner of the 20th century. In this blueprint from 1929, titled American Multiple Highway, Picasso proposes a stacked roadway…
In this recent edition of Flashback Staten Island, Staten Island Advance editor Jan Somma-Hammel compiled a fantastic selection of vintage photographs showing all of the old breweries on the…
This great vintage photograph from 1917 shows some of the last horse-drawn public transportation trams in New York City. The photographer was standing just north of the intersection of…
The Steel Strike of 1919 was ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers with the purpose of organizing the Steel Industry prior to World War I. Beginning in early…
