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…
Brooklyn native Patrick Cullinan snapped these photos of the Myrtle Avenue "El" in the 1950's and 1960's, showing the then-aging elevated train line, its passengers, and surrounding areas.…
All photos via Jennimaria Palomaki for Viewing NYC To visit the New York Transit Museum is, in many ways, to trace the history of the significant events, cultural forces, and technological…
Segregation in NYC public schools is a serious issue. The problem is worse now than it was 30 years ago, and what’s concerning is that most believe it was eliminated as a result of the Civil…
Brennan & Carr is an old school diner-like joint in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, that serves up some delicious dipped Roast Beef sandwiches and burgers since opening way back in the early…
Last March, Bushwick dive bar Bootleg Bar made a genius commercial which paid homage to 1980's style, low-budget ads. Now the bar is back with another made in similar vein by Brooklyn-based…
This vintage home movie, uploaded to YouTube by David W. Haas, M.D., shows the bicycle races at the famous Coney Island Velodrome around 1930. The film was captured by Haas' grandfather, a…
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…
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…
Back in the early 1980s, when the New York City subway was a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden place, the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels would protect commuters by establish a presence on…
