This great vintage film shows nearly 4-minutes of an uninterrupted drive from Downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn Heights over the Brooklyn Bridge in the early 1930s. Along the way, we get a…
In a detailed study titled Here Grows New York, Columbia University student Myles Zhang used publicly-accessible data from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress to create…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent upload to YouTube, Dj Hammers captures the…
This vintage photograph from the New York City Department of Records and Information shows the old Oceana Theater on Brighton Beach Avenue in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, circa 1940. The…
This interesting vintage photograph shows the Fulton Street Elevated Line in 1915. Taken near the intersection of Fulton St. and Hoyt St., many of these older buildings exist in their same…
This vintage photograph shows Bay Parkway and 86th Street at the neighborhood intersections of Bath Beach, Gravesend, and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, sometime around 1920. Here is a Google…
Constructed in 1848, the landmarked Brooklyn Borough Hall is one of the best Greek Revival buildings still standing in New York City. ONce operated as the independent city of Brooklyn's City…
Bridge Over Tree is a new public art exhibition from Iranian-born American sculptor and architect Siah Armajani which was conceived nearly 50 years ago, but under-appreciated in its original…
This vintage photograph from 1925 shows the James J. Butler Real Estate office at 2131 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn. Check out those home prices! Injusted for…
This black-and-white vintage photograph from the winter of 1975 shows an empty Coney Island Boardwalk during a snow storm. Here is a Google StreetView of approximately the same view today:
