The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was one of three major private transportation companies operating independently before they merged to become the City agency eventually known as…
Our friends at Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this incredible vintage photograph showing the Manhattan skyline at night as seen from under the Brooklyn Bridge circa 1928. The…
YouTube uploader Sascha Sass captured this home video of the original World Trade Center back when he was studying in New York City as a foreign exchange student. My trip to the top of the…
This vintage film from filmmakers Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weis documents the last day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times, and older printing technology that dates back to…
Back in the 1970s and 80s, graffiti on New York City's subway cars was commonplace. In recent years however, the sight of a tagged up subway car is quite rare. So when our friends at…
Dreamland was one of several amusement parks on Coney Island in the early 1900s. It lasted from 1904 through 1911 when it was destroyed by a fire after a worker accidentally kicked over a…
This great aerial photograph of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan was snapped in 1981 by George Lewis from an airplane. The most notable element in the photograph is the original World Trade…
Charles W. Cushman was an amateur photographer who shot thousands of photographs all around the world from 1938 to 1969. When Cushman passed, he bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome…
In this clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Chris Noth, best known for his playing Mr. Big on Sex and the City, talks about how the City has changed since 1990. Television…
