Filmmaker and author Stefan Nadelman's father worked for 10 years as a bartender at Times Square's Terminal Bar, often dubbed as the "roughest bar in the City". Stefan's father snapped…
Created in the 1920s, this incredible vintage film gives a tour of New York City buildings, streets, neighborhoods, hotspots, and attractions all throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. As a…
Created in the 1920s, this incredible vintage film gives a tour of New York City buildings, streets, neighborhoods, hotspots, and attractions all throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. As a…
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…
In this clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Chris Noth, best known for his playing Mr. Big on Sex and the City, talks about how the City has changed since 1990. Television…
Danish filmmaker Jonas Hollerup Helle recently shot this great video essay comparing some old vintage footage of New York City in the 1940s with modern day street scenes. The music featured…
Created by an anonymous artist back in 1970, this great illustrated vintage map shows New York City—well, mostly Manhattan—at the center of the world. The map is one of hundreds of unique…
Chilean-born photographer Camilo José Vergara was working on a graduate degree at Columbia University in the early 1970's. Vergara spent his time in the City photographing as much as he…
It’s said that you can tell a lot about a city by its tallest building. In New York, that was once the Chrysler Building: capitalism colliding with art and hubris to reign supreme over the…
Our history-loving friends over at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently compiled a great collection of vintage postcards dating from the very early 1900s up to the late 1930s. Each postcard…
