Captured by Vimeo uploader 1ntr in the summer of 1988, this shaky homemade film shows New York City street scene in both day and nighttime. It has a pretty annoying soundtrack overlaid…
Filmed in the mid/late 1990s and released in the year 2000, Dark Days is a fascinating documentary that follows several homeless people who lived in the abandoned "Freedom Tunnel" that runs…
This great vintage photograph shows the corner of West 10th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn back in 1903. The roller coaster in the photograph is the Loop the Loop, one of…
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 incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the intersection of Pell Street and Doyers Street in the heart of Chinatown. For contrast, here is a Google StreetView of how the…
Located on the corner of 23rd Street and Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building was quite an impressive site. Completed in 1893 and designed by…
Many people don't know that world famous film director and Bronxite Stanley Kubrick got his start as a young street photographer on the streets of New York City in the 1940s. Fast forward to…
This great vintage photograph from 1957 shows that things really haven't changed that much on the New York City subway, other than fashion. A packed train car filled with commuters during…
This Spring, multidisciplinary artist Nick Mauss has his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art titled Transmissions, an exploration of the…
Captured by photographer Dawoud Bey in front of the Loew's 125th Street movie theater in 1976, this bad-ass kid is way cooler than you or I will ever be. Deal with it.
