Brooklyn photographer Samuel Gottscho is well known for his New York City photography in the 1930's. We have featured his photos on Viewing NYC a few times before, and now we have this gem…
In this vintage photograph snapped in 1908 from an unknown photographer, we see some City workers digging in the street with a young, barefoot boy looking on. In 1the 1900's, this area was…
True Yorkers is a video series which interviews long-term New York residents about "Old New York" and the way things used to be in the City during a time many refer to as the "Good Ol'…
The Port Authority Bus Terminal is not know for being a grand marvel of architecture, but rather the opposite. There have even been architectural articles published on exactly why and how it…
In honor of the upcoming 2015 New York International Auto Show happening April 3rd - 12th, the NY Daily News recently dug through their archives to find some of the best photos of the 1950's…
Untapped Cities recently uncovered a 1927 Popular Science article detailing a proposal that would have ran a highway on top of a line of uniform 12-story buildings that ran from Battery City…
To the thousands of families who immigrated through Ellis Island, the skyline of America's greatest City was a pretty impressive sight. It stood for everything that was possible in America…
American photographer Slim Aarons photographed people, places and things his entire life. He was a military photographer in World War II, a celebrity photographer in Los Angeles in the 50's,…
A recent posting in The Vault, Slate's historical blog, historian Rebecca Onion tells the story of early American photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals and her personal life amongst the other…
This is a vintage photograph from an unknown photographer dating back to about 1909. It shows the intersection of Broadway and 42nd St., right at the South end of Times Square. Before 1909,…
