Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from…
Aerial view of the long abandoned structures, consisting of three concrete towers with observation decks at the top, and the Tent of Tomorrow, once covered with the largest cable suspension…
The Atlantic recently dug up this great collection of vintage photographs showing the 1939 New York World's Fair completely in color, captured by photographer Peter Campbell. The famous…
Take a peek at this old house located on 150th street and 147th Avenue in 1922's Jamaica, Queens, where JFK International Airport currently lies today. For more awesome historical and…
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…
Hailing from the Queens neighborhood of Hollis, Run-D.M.C. is one of the boroughs most famous rap groups. After forming in 1981, the group rose to International fame with hits like It's…
7 Train: Minutes to Midtown is a new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum's Grand Central Gallery Annex starting next week that features a collection of vintage photographs celebrating…
In 2013, filmmaker Amanda Murray created this amazing 20-minute documentary titled World Fair about the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage –…
You may not have known that the popular word game Scrabble was invented here, in New York City, by a man named Alfred Mosher Butts in 1931. On Sunday nights during the Depression, Asher…
In a series titled Islands of the Undesirables on collaborative historical website Atlas Obscura, historian and journalist Bess Lovejoy highlights five of the New York islands where we have…
