This great vintage photograph shows the 1940 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade heading through Times Square, with a 80-foot-tall Superman keeping watch. According to redditor Smallville1938:…
Last week, we showed you a great vintage photograph from 1943 showing the technologically advanced smoking Camel Billboard in Times Square. That smoking billboard would remain in the square…
The Grace Church in Greenwich Village is one of the oldest in the City, first opening in 1846. Covering most of two entire blocks between 10th and 12th Streets, Broadway and 4th Avenue, the…
When it opened in April of 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in an isolated section of Central Park. This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the humble beginnings of…
Many New Yorkers know that Central Park has had its fair share of animal employees in the past, like this lawn-mowing camel, but not as many people know that goats and sheep also have…
Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy is a new book from author and historian Elizabeth Winder that recounts actress Marilyn Monroe's time spent in New York City in late 1954 and 1955. In…
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has a great digital collection titled American Cities which "depicts the city, its development, and its people and their way of life…
Amateur photographer and former porn actor John A. Mozzer was in New York City during the raunchy, dirty, "Old New York" and he loved it. In this series of photographs snapped while…
New York historical blog Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up these great vintage photos showing the evolution of Wall Street between 1880 and 1904. The older photograph is taken from…
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…
