From 2016 Museum Mile Festival. Video via Max Scheidhauer for Viewing NYC The Museum Mile Festival is an annual event in which the Upper East Side section of 5th Avenue from 82nd through…
Way before the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connected the two boroughs, New Yorkers dreamed up ways on how to get from Brooklyn to Staten Island without taking a ferry. This 1910 proposal…
The New Deal was a comprehensive series of governmental spending spearheaded by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to help us recover from the great depression. Now over 80 years…
The Bronx-Manhattan High Bridge recently opened up to pedestrian traffic after over four decades of inoperation. Originally built to supply the flow of water from the Croton Aqueduct to…
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…
The Flatiron Building opened in 1902 and is one of the most significant architectural wonders in New York City. Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this great vintage…
Le Boudoir is a cocktail bar that is tucked away in on of the most unique settings in all of New York: An abandoned subway tunnel. The oldest in New York, this once-lost subway tunnel was…
This great vintage photograph show a busy Fifth Avenue and 51st Street looking north up the Avenue, full of pedestrians and horseless carriages. Here is a Google StreetView of what that…
The Deuce is an upcoming television series from HBO which focuses on the sex industry in Times Square during the 1970s and 80s. The series will star actors James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal,…
This two-minute vintage film from Edison Studios shows the expansion of Rikers Island using landfill in 1903, as seen from a boat circling the perimeter of the island. The film was…
