It's no secret that 1980's New York City was not a very nice place to be. The streets were filled with trash and graffiti, crime was rampant, public areas were underfunded and neglected. One…
This great side-by-side comparison of Lower Manhattan shows an aerial photograph from 1930 versus a satellite image at relatively the same angle, from Google Earth. Aside from the skyline…
Times Square's Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize to show an audio/visual art piece at exactly 11:57pm…
This great vintage photograph shows a few Italian bread peddlers selling loaves on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, circa 1900. Trying to find the present day location of this photograph is…
Filmed in the mid/late 1990s and released in the year 2000, Dark Days is a fascinating documentary that follows several homeless people who lived in the abandoned "Freedom Tunnel" that runs…
This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the intersection of Pell Street and Doyers Street in the heart of Chinatown. For contrast, here is a Google StreetView of how the…
Located on the corner of 23rd Street and Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building was quite an impressive site. Completed in 1893 and designed by…
Many people don't know that world famous film director and Bronxite Stanley Kubrick got his start as a young street photographer on the streets of New York City in the 1940s. Fast forward to…
This Spring, multidisciplinary artist Nick Mauss has his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art titled Transmissions, an exploration of the…
Captured by photographer Dawoud Bey in front of the Loew's 125th Street movie theater in 1976, this bad-ass kid is way cooler than you or I will ever be. Deal with it.
