Just the other day, we shared an incredible photograph showing the quick progression of the construction on the Empire State Building, and here we have another great vintage photograph from…
This series of vintage photographs from 1930 shows the incredible speed at which the Empire State Building was erected. Construction started on March 17th, 1930, with the external structure…
This vintage photograph from 1955 shows a non-politically-correct "Sig Klein's Fat Men's Shop" in the East Village. Sometime since then, all of these types of shops have been renamed to a…
These great vintage photographs from 1968 show the installation of the American Museum of Natural History's iconic 94-foot fiberglass and polyurethane blue whale. According to an article on…
This fantastic vintage film from 1929 shows a collection of street scenes around Midtown and Lower Manhattan. It was restored and uploaded by YouTuber and historian Guy Jones. Collection of…
Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the…
Originally created in the mid-1990s, the Heritage Trails were a set of self-guided sightseeing locations in Lower Manhattan that included information you could read about each landmark and…
Operated by the New York Transit Museum, the Holiday Nostalgia Train is a subway train made of vintage cars dating back to the 1930s. Running a limited route open the public every Sunday in…
Built on Wall Street in 1700, Federal Hall is the building where George Washington took his oath as our nation's first President. In later years, Federal Hall would hold the first U.S.…
Uploaded to OldSchoolCool by Redditor rachmaninoffkills, this great vintage photograph shows the southeast corner of Canal Street and Broadway on the SoHo/Tribeca border back in 1984. Here…
