Redditor kiddopro recently inherited a box of hundreds of old slides from the mid-1950s and is starting to digitize them, showing a fresh look at New York City and other cities six decades…
Our friends over at Bowery Boogie recently found this great vintage film from the 1940s showing the luxurious check-in process of the (then) state-of-the-art La Guardia airport. Note how…
American photographer Stephen Salmieri has captured photographs around New York City since his early twenties. His photography has been featured in the MOMA, the Getty, the Brooklyn Museum…
This great vintage photograph from around 1970 shows 4th Avenue in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The photographer is standing in the intersection of 55th Street and 4th Avenue,…
I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York 1955, Third Avenue Elevated (sometimes abbreviated to Third Avenue El) was an overhead subway line in the borough…
This incredible vintage tourism film from the early 1940s show off the signs and lights in Times Square and the Theater District with sound and full color. Check out the longer clip on Kino…
Here’s a pretty cool subway, rail, and trolley map from the early 1900’s. This particular map was commissioned by Cord Meyer, an attorney who developed a large portion of Forest Hills
Our friends at vintage photography site Vintage Everyday recently posted some great pics in an article titled Early Photos of Construction and Evolution of the NYC Subways. A collection of…
This vintage photograph from the Library of Congress digital collection shows Easter flower vendors in Union Square Park in the early 1900s. You can still purchase flowers from the same spot…
