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…
Snow Storm Stella could have been a lot worse, like this massive blizzard which hit New York City on December 26th, 1947. According to this vintage newsreel, a record setting 26" inches…
Popular Netflix original series The Get Down is all about the birth of hiphop in The Bronx during the 1970s. The series is back with the highly-anticipated second half of season 1, and a…
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…
The New York Graffiti Experience is a vintage documentary from 1976 that explores street art and graffiti in it's earliest days in New York City. It is one of the earliest mainstream videos…
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…
Dating back to the 1950s, the Gowanus Batcave is one of the City's oldest graffiti havens. Similar to its Queens counterpart 5 Pointz, the Batcave is being demolished and converted into…
New York City photographer Sam Shere captured much of the early 1900s through his lens for LIFE magazine and other major publications. In this series of photos from 1946, Shere set out to…
Gilded New York is a new iOS App from the Museum of the City of New York. Accompanying an exhibit by the same name, the App lets you see vintage photographs from all around the City, then…
The 69th Street Transfer Bridge is a historic piece of urban industrial art sitting in the Hudson River off of Riverside Park on the Upper West Side. Once an integral piece of infrastructure…
