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…
Uploaded to YouTube by MyFootage.com, this vintage video shows what life was like in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. A place away from the hustle and bustle of Downtown and Midtown, a place…
Located in the middle of New York Cities east river, lays the ruins of a hospital forgotten by the city it once cared for. The crumbling walls of Renwick Smallpox Hospital lay tribute to a…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube channel that is…
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.…
Looking strangely out of place on 42nd Street, this is Grand Central Station (formerly Terminal) in the early 1900s, after a renovation of the original 1871 structure—which had become too…
Street art has always taken center stage in the Lower East Side. Every block has dozens of painted murals on building exteriors, storefront gates and public utility spaces. Here is a short…
The Cloisters is a special museum in Washington Heights operated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses their collection of medieval Eurpoean art, architecture, and gardens. Built in…
The Fire Watchtower within Marcus Garvey Park was constructed circa 1857, when cast iron towers gave firefighters a spot to look out for fires and ring bells to alert local fire companies.…
