Tourism in New York City has been a hot industry for centuries, evidenced by this great vintage photograph from 1904 showing a group of tourists on an electric tour bus. Touring with a…
Captured in 1906 by photographer James A. Hart, this incredible shot is presumed to be the first ever aerial photograph of New York City. The lower end of Manhattan Island photographed from…
This great vintage photograph from around 1970 shows 4th Avenue in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The photographer is standing in the intersection of 55th Street and 4th Avenue,…
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…
Created by producer/director Carson Davidson in 1955, this incredible vintage film provides a portrait of the Third Avenue El in its final year. Once present up most of Manhattan's numbered…
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. 6sqft ⇒ Trump's NYC Properties No…
Not that long ago, commuters would fly to and from New York City airports from the tops of tall skyscrapers in Midtown, including the former Pan-Am Building (now the MetLife Building). In…
This great vintage photograph from 1929 shows the Chrysler Building under construction, and without its signature Art Deco cladding and metal eagles installed. Here is how the completed…
This great vintage photograph from the early 1960s shows the view from a car on the Brookyln-Queens Expressway while driving through Gowanus, Brooklyn, looking towards the Lower Manhattan…
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, former associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, captured this great aerial photograph showing a low-flying DC-4 plane over Midtown…
