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…
This great vintage photograph shows the Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from across New York Harbor on Governors Island, around 1938. View looking north of Lower Manhattan’s Fiancial…
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. 6sqft ⇒ Wegman Murals Cheer Up…
Shared on Instagram by @nycurbanism, this great series of vintage photographs show the 1907—1909 construction of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, an addition to the existing…
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. 6sqft ⇒ Lillian Wald's Lower East…
