With the help of Mark Cantor from Jazz on Film, volunteers at Brooklyn's Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Nursing Home were able to track down video of 102-year-old resident Alice Barker…
Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown has a violent history. Being one of the only streets in Manhattan where you cannot see the other end whilst walking through, it's bendy nature was the…
The Flatiron Building, originally called the Fuller Building, is so symbolic of New York City that it seems like it has always been here, but this vintage photo from 1902 showing the Fuller…
From Harlem Bespoke: This is a rare aerial vista of Sugar Hill in Hamilton Heights with a view looking north starting at the former Lewisohn Stadium which was a grand space for public…
In 1968, Jefferson Airplane setup and performed sans permits on top of the Schuyler Hotel in Midtown on West 45th Street. In this vintage — and sometimes nausea inducing — handheld video,…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. It's grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
Filmmaker and author Stefan Nadelman's father worked for 10 years as a bartender at Times Square's Terminal Bar, often dubbed as the "roughest bar in the City". Stefan's father snapped…
This is a vintage photograph from an unknown photographer dating back to about 1909. It shows the intersection of Broadway and 42nd St., right at the South end of Times Square. Before 1909,…
A recent posting in The Vault, Slate's historical blog, historian Rebecca Onion tells the story of early American photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals and her personal life amongst the other…
American photographer Slim Aarons photographed people, places and things his entire life. He was a military photographer in World War II, a celebrity photographer in Los Angeles in the 50's,…
