Freelance photographer Ian Ference recently uncovered these incredible vintage stereographic rolls of film showing Brooklyn in 3D back in 1933. After scanning them all, cleaning them up, and…
Recently shared by Instagramer @ironworkerlife, this great vintage photograph from the winter of 1962 shows the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, as seen from the Bay Ridge Side…
With a new building constructed or replaced almost every year, the Lower Manhattan skyline is constantly under flux. In this informative animated video rendering from COMMERCIAL Café, see…
This great vintage photograph from around 1944 shows the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Emmons Avenue, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. The trolley shown is the old Ocean…
In this great side-by-side comparison video from The New Yorker, watch Christmas scenes around Rockefeller Center from the 1930s through present day, and see how the annual Christmas Tree…
This fantastic video from over a century ago shows the grand opening of the Williamsburg Bridge on December 19th, 1903. It was restored and uploaded by YouTuber and historian Guy Jones.…
Recently dug up by our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About, this great 117-year-old gloomy photo shows the Williamsburg Bridge under construction in 1901, as seen from on board a boat on the…
Back in the early 1980s, when the New York City subway was a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden place, the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels would protect commuters by establish a presence on…
Captured by a then-19-year-old Stanley Kubrick in 1947, this great vintage photograph shows a group of New York City child shoeshiners taking a lunch break, noshing on 10-cent hot dogs.…
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. Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Bro Ho Ho! Here…
