In this video from TIME, learn the story behind the iconic New York City photograph showing a row of construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 800 feet in the air while building 30…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
On December 21st, 1912, the Nation's first public Christmas Tree display was setup in Madison Square Park, complete with 2,300 colored electric lights and a giant illuminated star on top.…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage photograph from 1903 showing the south-east corner of Central Park at 59th Street and 5th Avenue. Here is a Google…
Lost since 1969, the original Christmas Eve yule log filmed at Gracie Mansion has recently been found by local television station PIX11 and fully restored. The film will be broadcast once…
This vintage photograph from around 1932-33 shows a hatted man sitting on a steel girder of a skyscraper under construction, looking out over the Midtwon and Lower Manhattan skyline. The…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage photograph from 1905 showing the street market underneath the Williamsburg Bridge on the Lower East Side of…
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is arguably the most famous Christmas Tree and lighting ceremony in the world. Now a major media production and concert with superstars, the ceremony…
This home movie is of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1945 in New York City. World War II had just ended several months earlier. The parade had been suspended the prior 3 years due to…
The Lively Morgue is a photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the historical…
