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…
Check out this incredible vintage film restoration from about 1903, showing a black and white street scenes from an open-air market in lower Manhattan. A look into a busy lower class market…
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…
"The Wondrous Isle of Manhattan" is an incredible vintage map showing an illustrated interpretation of the borough as it appeared nearly 100 years ago. Landmarks, parks, major streets and…
The Flatiron Building opened in 1902 and is one of the most significant architectural wonders in New York City. This incredible vintage video from 1903 shows the building shortly after…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
