Native New Yorker Katherine Towler is an award-winning author and photographer with several novels under her belt. In the early 1970's, Towler lived in Chelsea and documented many of the…
New York Magazine recently posted this great collection of newsstands as captured in 1994, a dirtier, grittier time in New York City. It wasn't the City's darkest days but the grit was still…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
This fantastic video from 1903 was recently restored and uploaded by YouTuber Guy Jones. It shows a ferry boat transporting hopeful immigrants from their larger trans-Atlantic vessel onto…
Back in 1980, photographer Bud Glick moved from Milwaukee to the City to be a documentary photographer for the Museum of Chinese in America, then called "The New York Chinatown History…
Our friends at vintage photography site Vintage Everyday recently posted some great pics in an article titled Early Photos of Construction and Evolution of the NYC Subways. A collection of…
This map, created and published in 1870 by printmakers Currier & Ives, shows Manhattan, Brooklyn and bits of Queens as seen from a birds eye view over New York Harbor. Zooming in, many…
This amazing vintage photograph from 1911 shows Wall Street looking East from Nassau Street. On the left, George Washington gazes out over the intersection from Federal Hall, and on the…
The latest Apple store isn't a glass and steel cube, but rather a restoration of a 1920's era bank in the Upper East Side on the corner of Madison Ave. and 74th St. The company painstakingly…
When construction on the 57-story Woolworth Building was completed in April 1913, it became the tallest building in the world, holding the title until 1930 when the Chrysler Building took…
