The Pierre Hotel is one of the City's fanciest. Lining Central Park East on the Upper West Side, the hotel and building has an interesting history, outlined here by television producer Burt…
The Astolat Dollhouse Castle is an $8.5 million dollhouse filled with incredible miniature art and valuables. When you break it all down, the dollhouse is the most expensive piece of real…
This great vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Company block-wide department store and surrounding Herald Square in 1905. The view is from atop a building across 6th Avenue looking…
This great vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Company block-wide department store and surrounding Herald Square in 1905. The view is from atop a building across 6th Avenue looking…
This great vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Company block-wide department store and surrounding Herald Square in 1905. The view is from atop a building across 6th Avenue looking…
On September 16, 1920 the Stock Exchange, the Sub-Treasury building (today’s Federal Hall), and most importantly J.P. Morgan’s headquarters on 23 Wall Street — were all very active when an…
Shared on Instagram by @nycurbanism, this great series of vintage photographs show the 1907—1909 construction of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, an addition to the existing…
This great vintage photograph from 1946 shows World War II refugee children viewing Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty National Monument as they enter the United States through New…
This great vintage photograph from 1941 shows the famous "S-Curve" at Coenties Slip, in Lower Manhattan, December of 1941. In this spot, the former 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevated trains ran…
Captured in 1901 by photographer William Henry Jackson, this great vintage photograph shows the Washington Bridge—not the George Washington Bridge that opened in 1931—and the "speedway"…
