This vintage film from 1993 doesn't quite feel vintage at all. Usually we associate older film with grainy video and audio quality, but this 23 year old footage is anything but. Right when…
This vintage photograph from 1895 shows Charles Westphalen and his family in front of their Midtown German specialty food store. You won’t find a trace of Charles Westphalen’s store today,…
This incredible photograph of Manhattan's Civic Center and Two Bridges neighborhoods was snapped around 1915 from atop the pedestrian path of the Manhattan Bridge. Here is a Google Street…
Green Metropolis The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design is a new book by author and activist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, one of the women who spearheaded…
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…
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…
DAZE WORLD is a new photo book featuring hundreds of photographs of the iconic New York City street artist's work. This is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis's…
The Flatiron Building opened in 1902 and is one of the most significant architectural wonders in New York City. In this great slideshow compilation video from Vimeo uploader Lyndon Lorenz,…
Long before Charging Bull landed controversially at the Northern tip, long before the destruction of Fort Amsterdam which lied on it's Southern face, long before it housed public protests…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. 6sqft ⇒ Interactive Map Shows How…
