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…
This incredible vintage photograph shows a row of classy Midtown hotels around 1908, looking north along Fifth Avenue towards Central Park from 51st Street. Here is a Google Street View of…
This vintage photograph recently dug up by our friends at Forgotten New York shows the intersection of Bowery and Pell St., in Manhattan's Chinatown around 1964. Infrastructurally, there’s a…
This vintage film from 1993 doesn't quite feel vintage at all. Usually we associate older film with grainy video and audio quality, but this 23 year old footage is anything but. Right when…
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 amazing vintage photograph shows West Street along the Hudson River, looking North from Cortland Street at the New York Marine Terminals and boathouses that lines the docks at that…
Here are two photograph showing roughly the same view from the upper floors of the Empire State Building 75 years apart showing a drastically changed skyline. The black and white photograph…
Robert Gair was an entrepreneur in Tribeca back in the mid-1800s, making paper products and other paper goods. In 1879, one of his workers accidentally created the product which would…
