Created by producer/director Carson Davidson in 1955, this incredible vintage film provides a portrait of the Third Avenue El in its final year. Once present up most of Manhattan's numbered…
Captured in 1906 by photographer James A. Hart, this incredible shot is presumed to be the first ever aerial photograph of New York City. The lower end of Manhattan Island photographed from…
Tourism in New York City has been a hot industry for centuries, evidenced by this great vintage photograph from 1904 showing a group of tourists on an electric tour bus. Touring with a…
This great vintage photograph show the view looking north up Broadway from E. 10th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The street is full of the old trolly cars that used to run around…
In this great vintage film from Alan Steinfeld, take a 45-minute tour through the* "fashionable East Villaaage"* with host Barbara Lehman as she explores Cooper Square, St. Marks Place,…
This great vintage photograph shows a panorama of the west side of 5th Avenue, from Washington Arch to West 8th Street, back in 1911. Here is a Google StreetView of how the view from the…
It's been a few decades since Midtown Manhattan's 42nd Street—a.k.a. The Deuce—had any adult theaters, adult bookstores, or sex shops on it, so this great vintage photograph from around 1972…
Captured from atop an old building on 56th or 57th street looking north, this great vintage photograph shows the Plaza Hotel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, Central Park, and 5th Avenue as it…
SummerStage is back! The 2018 schedule and lineup was just announced, and you can catch free concerts and performances in parks around all five New York City boroughs from June 2nd through…
Back in 1844, at Brennan Farm House on the Upper West Side, near the intersection of 84th and Broadway, author and poet Edgar Allan Poe wrote 'The Raven'. Before the implementation of…
