Over 108 million vehicles travel over the George Washington Bridge each year, making it the busiest bridge in the City, the nation and even the world. In its first full year of operation,…
Photographer Ralph Morse (1917 – 2014) captured some of the most widely seen pictures of World War II, the United States space program, and sports events for LIFE magazine for several…
The grand entrance of the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda at the American Museum of Natural History is home to a massive 5,200 square foot installation of murals, originally completed in 1935 by…
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…
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…
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…
The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT, ran all the below-ground subway and above-ground trolly lines in Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan up until 1940, when the City purchased…
Local street artist JerkFace recently created this throwback mural of the 90's classic cartoon Ren and Stimpy. The large mural is located in Williamsburg, outside of Grandma Rose's Pizza on…
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…
Beneath the bustling streets of Midtown Manhattan lies Track 61, a mysterious rail siding with a rich, yet often mythical, history. Originally part of the Grand Central Terminal's service…
