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…
The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…
This hand illustrated birds eye view map of Midtown Manhattan was created by cartographer Hermann Bollmann for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens. One of the greatest cartographic…
With landmarks, catchphrases and neuroses aplenty, Seinfeld has resonated with New Yorkers far more than the countless other shows based in New York City. In this photograph from 1998, check…
Berenice Abbott (1898 — 1991) was a prolific street photographer of early New York City. In this vintage photograph from about 1935, see a couple of storefronts on Broome Street in Soho.…
Ephemeral New York is a site that seeks to chronicle "an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts." In a recent post, the site shows a vintage postcard showing a colorized…
This vintage photograph, published by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1905, shows the Financial District's Broad Street, looking North towards Wall St. For reference, here is how the same…
YouTube uploader Sascha Sass captured this home video of the original World Trade Center back when he was studying in New York City as a foreign exchange student. My trip to the top of the…
116 Years ago today, the first ever major U.S. car show was held at the old Madison Square Garden at 26th and Madison Avenue. The Automobile Club of America organised the week-long event…
A few years back, we shared a great vintage photo from 1926 showing the Nassau Street on a busy day, and nnow we have this amazing digitally altered photograph which merges that vintage…
