This 1905 shot of Herald Square is much different than what it looks like today. You can see square's namesake, the original New York Herald Building, the Elevated 6th Avenue IRT line, old…
Mashable recently published a great little collection of vintage photographs from the 1940's and 1950's showing the City illuminated in neon lights, the pinnacle of advertising technology…
Brooklyn photographer Samuel Gottscho is well known for his New York City photography in the 1930's. We have featured his photos on Viewing NYC a few times before, and now we have this gem…
The latest Apple store isn't a glass and steel cube, but rather a restoration of a 1920's era bank in the Upper East Side on the corner of Madison Ave. and 74th St. The company painstakingly…
Back in 1980, photographer Bud Glick moved from Milwaukee to the City to be a documentary photographer for the Museum of Chinese in America, then called "The New York Chinatown History…
This fantastic video from 1903 was recently restored and uploaded by YouTuber Guy Jones. It shows a ferry boat transporting hopeful immigrants from their larger trans-Atlantic vessel onto…
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…
Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown has a violent history. Being one of the only streets in Manhattan where you cannot see the other end whilst walking through, it's bendy nature was the…
From Harlem Bespoke: This is a rare aerial vista of Sugar Hill in Hamilton Heights with a view looking north starting at the former Lewisohn Stadium which was a grand space for public…
In 1968, Jefferson Airplane setup and performed sans permits on top of the Schuyler Hotel in Midtown on West 45th Street. In this vintage — and sometimes nausea inducing — handheld video,…
