With this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade looking much different due to the Coronavirus pandemic, here's a glimpse at another time when the parade looked much different. Check out this…
This interesting vintage photograph shows Longacre Square sometime in the 1870s, three decades prior to its renaming to "Times Square". Before the introduction of the subway station and New…
One of the world's most famous skyscrapers has just been through a major 10-year modernisation project. See New York City's 1930s icon has been updated for the modern age.
According to LinkedIn, monotonous grey cubicles are out and funky shared spaces are in. Inspired by social-business clubs of the 1920s, LinkedIn has created an office space that incorporates…
In the 1920s, New York City faced a capacity crisis at Penn Station, leading the New Jersey legislature to form the North Jersey Transit Commission. Their 1926 report advocated for "through…
Looking strangely out of place on 42nd Street, this is Grand Central Station (formerly Terminal) in the early 1900s, after a renovation of the original 1871 structure—which had become too…
Untapped Cities recently published this great article about the history of this vintage subway car from the 1960s that is sitting inside of a vacant storefront on 42nd Street near Bryant…
The large, red letters on Midtown's Essex House have been visible from Central Park since the 1930s. In this video from Switch Media, watch as the team from American Signcrafters explains…
Looking strangely out of place on 42nd Street, this is Grand Central Station (formerly Terminal) in the early 1900s, after a renovation of the original 1871 structure—which had become too…
Complete History of the Empire State building. As the victor of the 1930s’ race to the sky, the Empire State Building has long been hailed as one of America’s biggest landmarks and tourist…
