In this video uploaded by professional actor Emmett Fitzsimmons, a 1957 Times Square is presented long before the Disneyfication of recent years, and even a few decades before the crime and…
Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park have changed greatly over the years. Long before the some of City's wealthiest inhabitants took over, the area was full of artists and musicians,…
This is an amazing photograph looking North across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens around 1922. Because the photo was captured from so high up, it is tough to make out specific…
Street art has always taken center stage in the Lower East Side. Every block has dozens of painted murals on building exteriors, storefront gates and public utility spaces. Here is a short…
The Flatiron Building, originally called the Fuller Building, is so symbolic of New York City that it is tough to imagine a time when it wasn't there. But the building for which an entire…
Our current subway system, an amalgamation of the old privately owned Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company (BMT), and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit…
Our friends at the New York City Historical Blog recently published Ellis Island related pieces from their historical photograph collection. These photographs show off the island,…
The current New York City bus system was created by the MTA in 1953, but buses have been around the City for much longer than that. The bus system in New York dates back as early as the…
On March 6th, 1912, the very first Oreo was sold to a man from Hoboken out of a 9th Ave. factory owned by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). Today, 103 years later, that very same…
Here is a fantastic photograph captured from the corner of Mott and Mosco Streets in Chinatown by an unknown photographer around 1900. For comparison, here is how it looks today. This photo…
