This map, created and published in 1875 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Governors Island, Brooklyn and bits of New Jersey as seen from a birds eye view over Hoboken.…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this incredible vintage photograph showing the Manhattan skyline at night as seen from under the Brooklyn Bridge circa 1928. The…
This vintage home video was captured on July 18, 1989 and shows Nirvana on their first New York City gig as part of the New Music Senimar at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A. Shortly after this…
This amazing vintage black and white film shows street life in East Harlem, Manhattan back in 1948. In the Street (1948). Directed and edited by Helen Levitt. Cinematography by renowned NYC…
The Grace Church in Greenwich Village is one of the oldest in the City, first opening in 1846. Covering most of two entire blocks between 10th and 12th Streets, Broadway and 4th Avenue, the…
Last week, we showed you a great vintage photograph from 1943 showing the technologically advanced smoking Camel Billboard in Times Square. That smoking billboard would remain in the square…
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, former associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, captured this great aerial photograph showing a low-flying DC-4 plane over Midtown…
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…
New York historical blog Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up these great vintage photos showing the evolution of Wall Street between 1880 and 1904. The older photograph is taken from…
Amateur photographer and former porn actor John A. Mozzer was in New York City during the raunchy, dirty, "Old New York" and he loved it. In this series of photographs snapped while…
