In this recent video from Vox Media, learn how street dancers in the Bronx introduced breakdancing to the world back in the 1970s and 1980s, and how it has evolved since. Breaking, popularly…
Love it or loathe it, Times Square has been an iconic part of New York City since at least 1872, when it was called Longacre Square and was the central hub of the City's horse carriage…
Before DUMBO was home to multi-million dollar residential lofts, fancy restaurants, and upscale retail stores, it was an old industrial and manufacturing neighborhood. This vintage…
It was a sunny summer afternoon, July 29, 1925. Harry Warnecke, a photographer for the New York News, got a phone tip that a cat trying to carry its kittens home was tying up traffic because…
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…
This fantastic video from The New Yorker combines old footage of New York City taken over the past 80 years and combines it with the modern day counterpart, side by side on a split screen.…
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…
