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…
This great vintage street photograph shows the corner of West 36th Street and 7th Avenue in the Garment District of Manhattan sometime around 1970. Teamo is no longer there, replaced with a…
This great vintage film from 1930 shows the deconstruction and demolition of the old Casino Theater on Broadway and West 37th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. During the demolition, watch as an…
Here are the last four trolley lines to operate in New York City: #35 The Church Avenue Line, #68 The Coney Avenue Line, #50 The MacDonald Avenue Line, all in Brooklyn shown operating with…
This great vintage photograph from 1983 shows a bunch of teenagers at Lover's Lane in New Jersey during sunset, overlooking the Hudson River and the Twin Towers in the background.
This great vintage film shows nearly 4-minutes of an uninterrupted drive from Downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn Heights over the Brooklyn Bridge in the early 1930s. Along the way, we get a…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square, was once the home of The New York Times. Completed in 1904, and the Times stayed there for just 10 years…
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…
Everybody hates trekking out to La Guardia or JFK. It takes forever, there are limited transportation methods you can use to get there, and it is just the wrong way to start or end a trip.…
Joker is a new movie coming this Fall that tells the origin story of the popular Batman comic book villain known as The Joker. Starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role, the film also…
![New York City's Dream Airport | A spread from the March 18, 1946 issue of Life Magazine for a "$3 billion project [that] would place a landing deck in midtown Manhattan," proposed by William Zeckendorf.
This is two images stitched together crudely. Originals found at <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">Ptak Science Books</a>.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/nuy97k2auqy5y3m6nyk38bq32lvu)
