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.…
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…
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…
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…
In just a few weeks, Citi Bike will be adding 139 docking stations around new neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, along with a few thousand new bikes to help fill them all. Citi…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this 3-minute time lapse video, watch as the 6 Train makes…
New York City has some amazing architectural wonders that are open to the public every day of the year, but the City has many, many more that are not. The Open House New York Weekend, now in…
The Vendy Awards food festival is a food truck competition where the hottest street food vendors in the City are pitted head-to-head in a ticket-holder taste off to determine the best the…
An abandoned subway station is not exactly rare in the City, but often times you have to go out of your way in order to view one. This is not the case, however, for the IRT's old 18th St…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. Its grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
![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/assets/media/76a2cc64bf5f523ad0088e5931f87ea2/elements/ae399a787e3a7cbef0b85c073932a42e/xs/ee880253-5808-4cdf-bd37-81d291b6a417_2x.jpg)
