These are, I believe, the earliest Kodachrome home movies that my grandfather Gustave Martens filmed with his 16mm camera. Naturally he chose to film friends, flowers, and family - -…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a new movie staring academy-award winner Eddie Redmayne and takes place in 1920s New York City, but a slightly-off NYC that is part of the Harry…
Technically speaking, The Bronx-Manhattan High Bridge is the oldest in the City, dating back to 1848. It was built 35 years before the Brooklyn Bridge, but portions of it have been replaced…
This fantastic vintage photograph from around 1915 shows Broad Street looking North towards Wall Street, and the many curb brokers that traded throughout the day. Here is a Google Street…
Uploaded to YouTube by Lt Mojo Risin, this great vintage film shows the gritty streets of New York City in the 1970s along with San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. The music featured in…
Our friends over at Curbed recently interviewed production designer Bill Groom about recreating a gritty 1970s New York City for the hit HBO show Vinyl. The New York City of today is very…
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…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, and while the building itself hasn't changed much, the surrounding area of Midtown definitely has. In…
AstroLand was an amusement park on Coney Island that opened in 1962 and lasted nearly 50 years until its closing in 2008. This 'astro-tubular' vintage commercial from the early 1980s shows…
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…