This series of vintage photographs from 1930 shows the incredible speed at which the Empire State Building was erected. Construction started on March 17th, 1930, with the external structure…
Just the other day, we shared an incredible photograph showing the quick progression of the construction on the Empire State Building, and here we have another great vintage photograph from…
As part of his New York Up & Down series, New York City street photographer Frank Horvat captured this incredible juxtaposition of a bunch of colorful, happy balloons with a rusty,…
Premiering February 13th on PBS American Experience, a new one-hour documentary tells the story of how in 1920, a group of Galleanists—Italian anarchists—launched an attack on Wall Street by…
This great vintage aerial photograph shows the World Trade Center's Twin Towers under construction in Lower Manhattan in 1971. Notice how the landfill for Battery Park City has yet to be…
In this vintage news clip from February 15th, 1984, watch as Pix11 anchor Pat Harper reports that New York City will get its first non-212 telephone area code, something that local residents…
Imagine walking up to the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan and finding an office building instead of the world’s most famous concert hall. The 1960s nearly spelled the…
One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square built, was once the home of The New York Times. It was completed in 1904 and the Times stayed there for…
Local historical website Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this old vintage photograph from February 19th, 1938, showing a protest on Wall Street during the Great Depression era. New…
This great vintage photograph from around 1900 shows 5th Avenue looking south from 66th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Central Park is on the right, and several fancy townhouses…
