This vintage television commercial from the New York City Transit Authority (now the MTA) attempted to increase ridership by letting straphangers know they could get to the 1964-65 New York…
New York City photographer Sam Shere captured much of the early 1900s through his lens for LIFE magazine and other major publications. In this series of photos from 1946, Shere set out to…
This vintage photograph shows dozens of nearly identical black Ford automobiles in a slow-moving traffic jam along Queens Boulevard around 1933. The more things change, the more they stay…
As 2016 comes to its end (finally!), we thought we would review the 10 Viewing NYC articles our readers loved most this year. #10November 11, 2016 Naked Man Moons Protesters and Flips the…
Full version of the ad for NYCTA's service to the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Not only were the new picture window married pair baby blue and cream enameled St.…
This vintage photograph shows the quiet residential Queens neighborhood of Middle Village back in the early 1940s. Here’s what the street scene looked like on Metropolitan Avenue near 74th…
Since the early 1960s, the large East River island we know today as Randalls Island used to be three completely separate islands. In this vintage photograph from 1948, take a peek at…
You would never know it now, but the floor of the "Tent of Tomorrow" in the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park used to have an impressive map across the entire floor,…
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…
These are, I believe, the earliest Kodachrome home movies that my grandfather Gustave Martens filmed with his 16mm camera. Naturally he chose to film friends, flowers, and family - -…
