The United Palace in Washington Heights is one of the most stunning theaters in the World. Built in 1930 as a vaudeville house and premier movie theater, the theater's glory years were brief…
80s.nyc is a cool new website which uses old property photos from the publicly accessible digital archives of the New York City Department of Finance to create a Google StreetView-like map…
With the help of Mark Cantor from Jazz on Film, volunteers at Brooklyn's Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Nursing Home were able to track down video of 102-year-old resident Alice Barker…
David Wojnarowicz saw the outsider as his true subject. Largely self-taught, he created a body of work that spanned photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, writing, and activism. His…
From Business Insider: Sitting just off the coast of Upper New York Harbor, the Brooklyn Army Terminal was first commissioned in 1918 to serve as a major military depot, carrying troops and…
A recent article on Future Travel explores how the Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca has changed over the past hundred years through side-by-side photographs comparing the same vantage…
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…
Discover the unexpected history behind Roosevelt Island’s advanced pneumatic trash system, a marvel of urban engineering that eliminates the need for garbage trucks on the island. Once a…
Brooklyn native Patrick Cullinan snapped these photos of the Myrtle Avenue "El" in the 1950's and 1960's, showing the then-aging elevated train line, its passengers, and surrounding areas.…
U.K. Newspaper The Daily Mail recently published an interesting article showing the crime photography of Arthur Felig (aka Weegee) side by side with the same locations today. The changing…
