Captured by a then-19-year-old Stanley Kubrick in 1947, this great vintage photograph shows a group of New York City child shoeshiners taking a lunch break, noshing on 10-cent hot dogs.…
This great vintage aerial photograph from 1968 shows the Lower Manhattan waterfront, skyline, and Battery Park pre-World Trade Center. because the excavation of the Twin Towers led to the…
The Flatiron Building, originally called the Fuller Building, is so symbolic of New York City that it seems like it has always been here, but this vintage three-panel photo from 1902 showing…
This great vintage photograph from around 1934 shows the view from Brooklyn's Fulton Ferry Landing looking across the East River towards lower Manhattan. This would be right at the edge of…
This great vintage photograph from around 1915 shows the view looking west from the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge. The most noticeable structure is the three-facaded Manhattan…
Recently dug up in the Museum of the City of New York archives by Ephemeral New York, this great vintage photograph from 1943 shows a bunch of New Yorker lounging on a Tudor City rooftop in…
This great vintage photograph of actor James Dean is a colorized version of an iconic shot captured by photographer Dennis Stock for the March 7, 1955 issue of LIFE magazine. The original…
Captured by American photojournalist Martha Cooper back in 1981, this great vintage photograph titled Style Wars by NOC 167 shows a well-dressed man reading a newspaper inside of a colorful,…
Back in 1930, while the Waldorf Astoria Hotel was under construction at 301 Park Avenue, the hotel wanted to find a way to show the world how exceptional their service was. They devised a…
Captured in 1906 by photographer James A. Hart, this incredible shot is presumed to be the first ever aerial photograph of New York City. The lower end of Manhattan Island photographed from…
