This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building in 1929, the year it finished construction and opened to the public. Once the tallest building in Brooklyn,…
The Atlantic recently dug up this great collection of vintage photographs showing the 1939 New York World's Fair completely in color, captured by photographer Peter Campbell. The famous…
Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from…
King in New York is a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York which traces and highlights all of the civil rights leader's encounters with the City between the early 1950s…
Berenice Abbott (1898 — 1991) was a prolific street photographer of early New York City. In this vintage photograph from about 1935, see the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian walkway, long before…
Lower East and Upper West is an interesting new photobook containing the vintage street photography of Jonathan Brand capturing the street life in the Manhattan neighborhoods from 1957…
This great vintage photograph from around 1900 shows 5th Avenue looking south from 66th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Central Park is on the right, and several fancy townhouses…
Local historical website Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this old vintage photograph from February 19th, 1938, showing a protest on Wall Street during the Great Depression era. New…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square built, was once the home of The New York Times. It was completed in 1904 and the Times stayed there for…
Imagine walking up to the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan and finding an office building instead of the world’s most famous concert hall. The 1960s nearly spelled the…
