This great vintage film from YouTuber and film restorer Guy Jones shows guests arriving at the 1934 Motion Picture Ball, a event celebrating the relatively new industry of motion picture…
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. Bklyner ⇒ 'Sun's Out, Fun's Out!'…
This great vintage photograph shows two men hanging out on the sidewalk in Harlem in the early 1970s. The view is from just north of W. 115th Street on Lenox Avenue, looking south. Here is a…
Captured in 1901 by photographer William Henry Jackson, this great vintage photograph shows the Washington Bridge—not the George Washington Bridge that opened in 1931—and the "speedway"…
You may not have noticed before, but many of Manhattan's older buildings have a specific shape based on rules that were defined by a specific zoning law enacted in 1916. The requirements…
Taken in the hot New York summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson’s classic essay Brooklyn Gang, New York, infiltrates a close-knit group of teenagers as they sunbathed, smoked and bloodied each…
Brooklyn urban explorer and transit enthusiast Bob Diamond is most well-known for rediscovering, exploring, and offering unauthorized tours in, an abandoned subway tunnel under Atlantic…
This great vintage photograph of actor James Dean is a colorized version of an iconic shot captured by photographer Dennis Stock for the March 7, 1955 issue of LIFE magazine. The original…
It's no secret that 1980's New York City was not a very nice place to be. The streets were filled with trash and graffiti, crime was rampant, public areas were underfunded and neglected. One…
This great side-by-side comparison of Lower Manhattan shows an aerial photograph from 1930 versus a satellite image at relatively the same angle, from Google Earth. Aside from the skyline…
