This vintage photograph from 1955 shows a non-politically-correct "Sig Klein's Fat Men's Shop" in the East Village. Sometime since then, all of these types of shops have been renamed to a…
This interesting vintage film from March, 1930 features an "inquiring cameraman from the Newsreel Theater" asks New Yorkers on the street whether they prefer short or long skirts on women.…
This great vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the Washington Bridge—not the George Washington Bridge that opened in 1931— and the "speedway" underneath as it spans the Harlem River…
The team at historical website Knowol recently restored this excellent vintage map from the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The NYWF of 1939–1940 was the…
Local historical blog Ephemeral New York recently dug up this great vintage ticket from 1903 in the Museum of the City of New York's Digital Collection. Shortly after the bridge opened, you…
This great vintage photograph shows two teenagers goofing off in the cafeteria of High School of Music & Art in Harlem back in 1936. These teenagers, All Jaffee and Will Elder, would…
Captured on December 2nd, 1932, this vintage photograph shows two workers on Rockefeller Center's RCA Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza) taking a smoke break near the edge of an unfinished…
This great vintage photograph show a busy Fifth Avenue and 51st Street looking north up the Avenue, full of pedestrians and horseless carriages. Here is a Google StreetView of what that…
This vintage photograph shows Times Square from above in 1964. This is looking north, with Broadway running from top-left to bottom-right, and 7th Avenue running from top-right to…
This vintage photograph shows the R.H. Macy and Co. building on 34th Street and Broadway in Herald Square in about 1905, long before it swallowed the whole block and became a tourist…
