This great vintage photograph from 1903 shows the view looking north up Broadway from West 39th Street towards the Times Building and Hotel Astor. Here is a Google StreetView of how the view…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square, was once the home of The New York Times. Completed in 1904, and the Times stayed there for just 10 years…
This 1905 shot of Herald Square is much different than what it looks like today. You can see square's namesake, the original New York Herald Building, the Elevated 6th Avenue IRT line, old…
Brooklyn photographer Samuel Gottscho is well known for his New York City photography in the 1930's. We have featured his photos on Viewing NYC a few times before, and now we have this gem…
The Empire State Building opened to the public with much fanfare on May 1st, 1931. As part of the celebrations, this group of acrobats were hired to perform at the top of the skyscraper,…
Premiering February 13th on PBS American Experience, a new one-hour documentary tells the story of how in 1920, a group of Galleanists—Italian anarchists—launched an attack on Wall Street by…
Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the…
This great vintage video showing New York City trolley service on the corner of Broadway and 17th Street in Union Square way back in 1901 was recently restored and uploaded by YouTuber Guy…
On December 17th, 1900, Ellis Island opened the doors to the iconic, main immigration building for the first time. Though the island had processed immigrants since 1892, the massive building…
In this video from TIME, learn the story behind the iconic New York City photograph showing a row of construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 800 feet in the air while building 30…
