Captured by Vimeo uploader 1ntr in the summer of 1988, this shaky homemade film shows New York City street scene in both day and nighttime. It has a pretty annoying soundtrack overlaid…
The Empire State Building opened to the public with much fanfare on May 1st, 1931. As part of the celebrations, this group of acrobats were hired to perform at the top of the skyscraper,…
This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building in 1929, the year it finished construction and opened to the public. Once the tallest building in Brooklyn,…
Premiering February 13th on PBS American Experience, a new one-hour documentary tells the story of how in 1920, a group of Galleanists—Italian anarchists—launched an attack on Wall Street by…
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…
This great vintage video showing New York City trolley service on the corner of Broadway and 17th Street in Union Square way back in 1901 was recently restored and uploaded by YouTuber Guy…
On December 17th, 1900, Ellis Island opened the doors to the iconic, main immigration building for the first time. Though the island had processed immigrants since 1892, the massive building…
In this video from TIME, learn the story behind the iconic New York City photograph showing a row of construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 800 feet in the air while building 30…
Our friends at Ephemeral New York recently dug up this great print from 1930 showing author and poet Edgar Allan Poe walking across The Bronx's High Bridge. After he moved from a farmhouse…
20 Exchange Place is one of New York City's best Art Deco skyscrapers. Once housing the City Bank-Farmers Trust, the building was decorated with marble, statues and ornate styling. Our…
