Our friends at Ephemeral New York recently dug up this great print from 1930 showing author and poet Edgar Allan Poe walking across The Bronx's High Bridge. After he moved from a farmhouse…
20 Exchange Place is one of New York City's best Art Deco skyscrapers. Once housing the City Bank-Farmers Trust, the building was decorated with marble, statues and ornate styling. Our…
This vintage photograph recently dug up by our friends at Forgotten New York shows the intersection of Bowery and Pell St., in Manhattan's Chinatown around 1964. Infrastructurally, there’s a…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, and while the building itself hasn't changed much, the surrounding area of Midtown definitely has. In…
This amazing vintage photograph shows West Street along the Hudson River, looking North from Cortland Street at the New York Marine Terminals and boathouses that lines the docks at that…
Here are two photograph showing roughly the same view from the upper floors of the Empire State Building 75 years apart showing a drastically changed skyline. The black and white photograph…
Trinity Church on Broadway and Wall Street is one of the City's oldest standing churches, opening in 1846. See how the church and surrounding area looked a century ago with this…
The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…
Local YouTuber actionkid105 recently filmed the walk from DUMBO, Brooklyn, to Chinatown, Manhattan, across the Manhattan Bridge's pedestrian walkway. Along the way, see Jane's Carousel and…
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…
