If you thought Sunday's 1954 Columbus Circle Photograph was special, wait until you check out this one… Snapped sometime in 1907 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, this amazing stitched panorama of…
The Gillender Building was built in 1897 on the NW corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street. The 20-story building was one of the tallest buildings in the City, and its elegant exterior was a…
On July 28th, 1945, bad weather and extremely low fog caused a B-25 bomber heading to Newark from the Northeast collided with the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing at least 14…
New York City Hall was built in 1811, making it the oldest city hall of any city in the United States. It still houses important City government and also houses the Mayor's office. This…
Though incorrectly identifying Grand Central Terminal as Grand Central Station (the post office next door), TIME's Travel & Leisure site recently found some great vintage photographs…
Though kind of macabre, to celebrate the end of World War I in 1918, this massive pyramid was constructed near Grand Central Terminal using the helmets of captured and killed German…
This iconic New York photograph, captured by the late photographer Paul Himmel, features a pensive man looking out off the Brooklyn Bridge towards lower Manhattan. This photo is just one of…
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…
Harlem's City College of New York is the oldest college in the CUNY system, established in 1847. This vintage photograph from 1908 shows Shepard Hall, a neo-gothic masterpiece based on a…
Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett is perhaps best known for Bush Tower in Midtown, but he also designed some important City structures such as the massive New York City Criminal Courts…
