Martin Scorcese is no stranger when it comes to making movies about New York City gangsters. Revenge of the Green Dragons is one such gangster movie, but not as you would expect. The movie…
Everybody has seen Marilyn Monroe's iconic flying skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent underneath her. Here instead is a more…
Here is an amazing shot taken by balloon from the Southern tip of Manhattan facing North over the Financial District. The built-up area in the top of the photograph is Wall Street, and the…
The MTA released this fantastic film entitled Rapid Transit to their official YouTube channel a few years back. The short 10 minute film seems to have been produced as a training/recruitment…
This is a 1987 home movie made by video artist Nelson Sullivan. There is no plot to this video, nor anything that really stands out as a main focal point... it is just a typical home movie…
The Brooklyn Heights Promenade sits over the 278 freeway and offers one of the best views in the City. Once a place where wealthy Manhattan business men, lawyers and other prominent figures…
English graphic designer Oli Town recently created this great little stop motion video detailing a very brief demonstration of how the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels helped clean up the…
The New York Times Archives on Twitter is a great official New York Times account which posts photographs and newspaper clippings from the newspaper's vast collection of print archives. In a…
Jack Garofolo (1923-2004) was a photographer for Paris Match magazine in the 1960's and 70's. During one trip to the United States in the summer of 1970, Garofalo captured these amazing…
German photographer Franz Grasser who travelled to the United States in 1938, capturing some amazing photos of a pre-war New York City. Sadly, when he returned to Germany he was drafted into…
