This great vintage photograph from the early 1960s shows the view from a car on the Brookyln-Queens Expressway while driving through Gowanus, Brooklyn, looking towards the Lower Manhattan…
This great collection of vintage photographs from Flickr user Michael Donovan show several different New York City street scenes all throughout the 1950s.
Just like everything else in New York City in the 1980s, the Statue of Liberty fell into a state of disrepair. From 1984 through 1986, Lady Liberty underwent massive restoration, repair, and…
The 1940s were marked with both dark times and bright hopes. Nightly dim-outs, meant to both conserve energy and hide the skyline from possible WWII air and naval attacks, were a regular…
This vintage photograph from the 1950s shows a very crowded Coney Island beach and boardwalk, as seen from atop the Coney Island Parachute Jump ride. While the beach may not attract this…
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…
With numerous subway stops, local businesses and eateries, 86th Street is the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst's "main street", though you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at these…
The New York City Skyline is ever-changing. Compare the Manhattan skyline in these fantastic color aerial photographs captured in the 1960s with the skyline of today and you will see a world…
This amazing vintage photograph shows a row of long-gone Harlem buildings, looking west down modern day Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Here is a Google Street View of the same location today,…
Despite being a densely populated City with fewer green pareas than many other cities, having dogs as pets has always been a popular choice amongst residents. Sure the dogs may not get to…
