Our friends at Bowery Boogie recently got the chance to explore the old abandoned hospital complex on Ellis Island once used to treat hopeful immigrants who carried infectious diseases and…
Our current subway system, an amalgamation of the old privately owned Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company (BMT), and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit…
Local blogger Flaming Pablum recently came across this post on the NYC 1950 to Present Facebook page where the original poster, Jay Singer, describes the video: The south platform at Bowery…
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…
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States so we would not be doing our part in honoring one of our Nation's great heroes without showing you a bit of MLK in New York City.…
In a photograph taken today by a helicopter belonging to New York City's local CBS radio station, WCBS, you can just feel the frigidity in the air. The snow in the park, the steam from the…
You may recognize the City Hall Station above, but probably not from riding the Subway. The IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) City Hall Station was the very first Subway station in NYC. It…
