"Roller Coaster Kids; Tales of 1960's Coney Island" is a Brooklyn artist's wild coming of age memoir that chronicles the author's many friendships and adventures while growing up in the…
Recently shared by Instagramer @ironworkerlife, this great vintage photograph from the winter of 1962 shows the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, as seen from the Bay Ridge Side…
This great vintage photograph from around 1944 shows the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Emmons Avenue, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. The trolley shown is the old Ocean…
Captured around late 1908 or early 1909, this fantastic vintage photograph shows the construction of the Manhattan Bridge over the East River. This shot was taken from Main Street, in…
This vintage photograph from 1960 shows the aftermath of the Park Slope Plane Crash near Sterling Place and 7th Avenue. Two planes collided mid-air while descending into La Guardia, and…
Formed in 1896, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company acquired and consolidated many various train and streetcar services in Brooklyn and Queens. By the time this map was created in 1912, the…
From VICE News: Air pollution now causes more than 4 million deaths a year. And it might be having a surprising impact on one group in particular: the 86,000 New Yorkers who commute by bike…
Colorized by artist jecinci, this great vintage photograph from 1908 shows the construction of the Manhattan Bridge, as seen from Washington St. and Water St. in the neighborhood that is now…
Brooklyn urban explorer and transit enthusiast Bob Diamond is most well-known for rediscovering, exploring, and offering unauthorized tours in, an abandoned subway tunnel under Atlantic…
This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building in 1929, the year it finished construction and opened to the public. Once the tallest building in Brooklyn,…
