Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent upload to YouTube, Dj Hammers captures one of…
(All Photos by Joshua Mu for Viewing NYC) The Grand Central Terminal is the nation's busiest train station, used by over 750,000 people daily. Between secret presidential tracks and a $20…
It's been a long day... all you want to do is get home, yet it seems that the NYC subway is trying to bring you down. Or in this case, up. This subway rat, just trying to go home to the…
Brooklyn filmmaker/actor/entertainer Meir Kalmanson has done quite a few stunts in the City, including dancing like crazy behind unsuspecting strangers, the subway dance party and…
Because building new docks and ferry terminals is much easier than opening new subway stations, the NYC Ferry expansion on the East River is moving along smoothly with minimal delays,…
Vimeo user Ryan Ferguson recently created this great video highlighting five of the relatively more obscure Manhattan landmarks. Included in the video are a tombstone at Trinity Church…
"The Commuter's Lament" is a poem from late poet Norman B. Colp that is written on the ceiling beams of the connection tunnel between the Port Authority and Times Square subway stations. In…
The midtown stretch of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is one of the most famous strips of road in the world. Lined with flagship locations of international retailers, iconic buildings and plazas,…
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.…
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)
