Uploaded to YouTube by MyFootage.com, this vintage video shows what life was like in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. A place away from the hustle and bustle of Downtown and Midtown, a place…
Visual artist Portia Munson's new exhibit is one that may contrast to your average contemporary art exhibit. "The Garden" is currently on display at PPOW Gallery in Chelsea, and highlights a…
This vintage photograph shows the corner of West 114th Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem back in 1910. At the time, this impressive building belonged to Ansche Chesed Synagogue, however the…
As New Yorkers, we all have an inherent love for Grand Central Station: its age-old beauty, its spectacular architecture, and the way it seems to bring in the most interesting humans of the…
TGI Fridays is the kind of cookie-cutter, shopping mall, corporate chain restaurant that New Yorkers tend to avoid, but it wasn't always like this. In this short video from Great Big Story,…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
A new photobook by famed photographer Louis Stettne titled Penn Station, New York is a roundup of fantastic vintage photographs he snapped in the 1950s, before Penn Station evolved into the…
This great vintage photograph from 1926 shows a group of snow shovelers clearing waist-high snow on Fifth avenue after a blizzard in 1926. Check out the vintage truck with a snow plow…
The 3rd Avenue Elevated Train ("El") opened with service in Manhattan in 1878. Over the next 77 years, the 3rd Avenue "El" would provide rapid train transit for anybody wishing to go from…
Amateur photographer and former porn actor John A. Mozzer was in New York City during the raunchy, dirty, "Old New York" and he loved it. In this series of photographs snapped while…
