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…
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…
Actor and producer Steve Buscemi wasn't always on the silver screen. Born here in Brooklyn in 1957, the Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, and Boardwalk Empire star used to work in the New York City…
This great vintage photograph from 1963 shows musician Bob Dylan and his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo hanging out in the West Village of Manhattan on a snowy winter day. It appears this…
This great vintage photograph from around 1920 shows a young well-dressed daredevil balancing precariously on top of a stack of chairs 20 stories up on the rooftop of a New York City…
Perhaps the most famous billboard to ever exist in Times Square, the Camel Cigarettes billboard used steam to fake the appearance of a smoking man. In 1941 a billboard was installed that…
This vintage photograph from 1930 shows a brave construction worker carrying a heavy sack as he crosses a steel beam high above ground level, working on the 71-story neo-gothic skyscraper at…
It was a sunny summer afternoon, July 29, 1925. Harry Warnecke, a photographer for the New York News, got a phone tip that a cat trying to carry its kittens home was tying up traffic because…
This two-minute vintage film from Edison Studios shows the expansion of Rikers Island using landfill in 1903, as seen from a boat circling the perimeter of the island. The film was…
Snow Storm Stella could have been a lot worse, like this massive blizzard which hit New York City on December 26th, 1947. According to this vintage newsreel, a record setting 26" inches…
