Inspired by this week's post showing the ghost ship graveyard on Staten Island, the theme for this week's find is all about Boats. Every Friday, Viewing NYC finds five great photos snapped…
Times Square's Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize to show an audio/visual art piece at exactly 11:57pm…
We have posted video like this a few times before, but the slow motion capture of commuters on a subway platform is always a fascinating glimpse into the lives of random people, even if only…
Everybody hates trekking out to La Guardia or JFK. It takes forever, there are limited transportation methods you can use to get there, and it is just the wrong way to start or end a trip.…
Media distributed in a recent Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee meeting revealed the locations of the 39 forthcoming Citi Bike locations on the Upper East Side. It's a…
New York filmmaker Dale Schierholt has been making film for over 25 years. His full-length films have screened in theaters all over the nation and on television. In this video short entitled…
Tenant King is an interesting social media network which is completely private and exclusive to only your neighborhood. Once you sign up, you have to prove residency by entering a special…
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…
![New York City's Dream Airport | A spread from the March 18, 1946 issue of Life Magazine for a "$3 billion project [that] would place a landing deck in midtown Manhattan," proposed by William Zeckendorf.
This is two images stitched together crudely. Originals found at <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">Ptak Science Books</a>.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/nuy97k2auqy5y3m6nyk38bq32lvu)
