According to LinkedIn, monotonous grey cubicles are out and funky shared spaces are in. Inspired by social-business clubs of the 1920s, LinkedIn has created an office space that incorporates…
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…
Hidden deep in the basement of the 1929 Art Deco Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, there is a secret tunnel that leads directly to Penn Station. The tunnel originally allowed guests of the hotel to…
Many fancy and popular dining spots in the City used to be sex clubs back in the day. Our friends at Paper Mag made this cool list of all the restaurants, including the Shake Shack in…
This vintage photograph from 1895 shows Charles Westphalen and his family in front of their Midtown German specialty food store. You won’t find a trace of Charles Westphalen’s store today,…
Construction on the Main Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1911, and while the building itself hasn't changed much, the surrounding area of Midtown definitely has. In…
This vintage photograph from around 1905 shows the R.H. Macy and Co. building on 34th Street and Broadway in Herald Square, long before it swallowed the whole block and became a tourist…
The large, red letters on Midtown's Essex House have been visible from Central Park since the 1930s. In this video from Switch Media, watch as the team from American Signcrafters explains…
Our friends at Mashable recently compiled this great collection of vintage photographs of the Easter Parade, dating back over a century ago to 1898. In the late 1800s, New York's churches…
Brooklyn-born singer/songwriter Neil Diamond got his start in the 1960s by writing songs and playing them for other musicians and record labels on Tin Pan Alley on W. 28th St. By the time…
