Hailing from the Queens neighborhood of Hollis, Run-D.M.C. is one of the boroughs most famous rap groups. After forming in 1981, the group rose to International fame with hits like It's…
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…
In 2013, filmmaker Amanda Murray created this amazing 20-minute documentary titled World Fair about the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage –…
Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from…
Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from…
You would never know it now, but the floor of the "Tent of Tomorrow" in the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park used to have an impressive map across the entire floor,…
In a detailed study titled Here Grows New York, Columbia University student Myles Zhang used publicly-accessible data from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress to create…
In a series titled Islands of the Undesirables on collaborative historical website Atlas Obscura, historian and journalist Bess Lovejoy highlights five of the New York islands where we have…
You may not have known that the popular word game Scrabble was invented here, in New York City, by a man named Alfred Mosher Butts in 1931. On Sunday nights during the Depression, Asher…
Captured by National Geographic over New York City in 1933, this incredible vintage aerial photograph shows New York City, New York Harbor, New Jersey, and even more from a bird's-eye view.…
