This incredible vintage tourism film from the early 1940s show off the signs and lights in Times Square and the Theater District with sound and full color. Check out the longer clip on Kino…
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…
Brooklyn native Patrick Cullinan snapped these photos of the Myrtle Avenue "El" in the 1950's and 1960's, showing the then-aging elevated train line, its passengers, and surrounding areas.…
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…
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 ⇒ For $800K, a Renovated…
Skyrise Cities recently published a brief overview of the history of New York City street transit, including some great vintage photograph including this one showing a City street full of…
Segregation in NYC public schools is a serious issue. The problem is worse now than it was 30 years ago, and what’s concerning is that most believe it was eliminated as a result of the Civil…
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…
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…
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…
