To the thousands of families who immigrated through Ellis Island, the skyline of America's greatest City was a pretty impressive sight. It stood for everything that was possible in America…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The Kings Theatre in Ditmas Park was recently renovated over a multi-year, $90 million effort, and it is not going unnoticed. Last year, the theater won a New York State Preservation Award,…
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,…
Built in 1918, the Brooklyn Army Terminal (formerly known as the US Army Military Ocean Terminal) was the largest U.S. military supply base through World War II. It was used as an active…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
