This great vintage photograph shows two men hanging out on the sidewalk in Harlem in the early 1970s. The view is from just north of W. 115th Street on Lenox Avenue, looking south. Here is a…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. Bklyner ⇒ 'Sun's Out, Fun's Out!'…
This great vintage film from YouTuber and film restorer Guy Jones shows guests arriving at the 1934 Motion Picture Ball, a event celebrating the relatively new industry of motion picture…
Opening in June of 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is the only bridge spanning the East River that is not a suspension bridge, but rather a five-span cantilever truss. From opening day until…
When the Queensboro Bridge first opened in 1909, the Queens neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria were relatively undeveloped. There were some industrial sites along the East River,…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. 6sqft ⇒ Grow a Green Thumb This…
Recently dug up in the Museum of the City of New York archives by Ephemeral New York, this great vintage photograph from 1943 shows a bunch of New Yorker lounging on a Tudor City rooftop in…
Snapped by photographer Willy Spiller in the 1970s, this great photograph shows a bunch of teenage school girls riding the graffiti-filled New York City subway in uniform.
Captured by photographer Jamie Kalikow in the summer of 1981, this great vintage photograph shows a little girl (Kalikow's niece) reading a book on a graffiti-filled 1 train headed to South…
David Wojnarowicz saw the outsider as his true subject. Largely self-taught, he created a body of work that spanned photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, writing, and activism. His…
