This vintage photograph from 1925 shows the James J. Butler Real Estate office at 2131 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn. Check out those home prices! Injusted for…
Uploaded by Youtuber El Exigente, this great color vintage film shows a family outing to the South Beach Amusement Park in the summer of 1948. It's a fascinating peek into a historic part of…
This black-and-white vintage photograph from the winter of 1975 shows an empty Coney Island Boardwalk during a snow storm. Here is a Google StreetView of approximately the same view today:
Historian and YouTuber The History Guy recently released this interesting profile of Stanley Clifford Weyman, a man known for being The Fabulous Fraud from Brooklyn. Learn all about him and…
It's been a quarter-century since the New York Rangers have won the Stanley Cup. Relive that year in this vintage CBS New York newsreel covering the team's championship parade in 1994. As…
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. 6sqft ⇒ Hudson Yards Releases New…
This vintage aerial photograph from the early 1930s shows the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood in Brooklyn before the addition of Robert Moses' Belt Parkway cut-off the neighborhood's access to…
If you've ever spent some time marveling at the Main Concourse inside Grand Central Terminal, you may have noticed a small rectangular dark patch high on the ceiling. At first glance, it…
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. 6sqft ⇒ Urban Archive Invites New…
Artist Jane Dickson lived and worked in Times Square during the late 1970s and ‘80s, capturing what she saw and experienced through drawings, paintings, and photography. With the release of…
