There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. Bklyner ⇒ Coney Island Cyclone Opens…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. It's grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
This great vintage photograph from June, 1936, shows two men chatting on the stoop of 133 Avenue D on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At that time, the storefronts were occupied by a coffee…
Uploaded to YouTube by David W. Haas, M.D., this vintage home movie shows the bicycle races at the famous Coney Island Velodrome around 1930. The film was captured by Haas' grandfather, a…
Decade of Fire is an interesting new documentary from directors Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vazquez that reexamines the history of South Bronx blight in the 1970s, from the perspective of…
Joker is a new movie coming this Fall that tells the origin story of the popular Batman comic book villain known as The Joker. Starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role, the film also…
Everybody hates trekking out to La Guardia or JFK. It takes forever, there are limited transportation methods you can use to get there, and it is just the wrong way to start or end a trip.…
New York's iconic Queensboro Bridge is one of the city's most recognizable sights. The bridge was still relatively new when these films were taken. The upper deck carried Second Avenue…
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 interesting proposed transit plan from 1939 shows all 5 New York City boroughs interconnected in a way that never materialized. Check out the way the N line in Queens hits the…
![New York City's Dream Airport | A spread from the March 18, 1946 issue of Life Magazine for a "$3 billion project [that] would place a landing deck in midtown Manhattan," proposed by William Zeckendorf.
This is two images stitched together crudely. Originals found at <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">Ptak Science Books</a>.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/nuy97k2auqy5y3m6nyk38bq32lvu)
