Believe it or not, NYC is home to colorful butterflyfish! But this story has a sad ending. These beautiful visitors to NYC are called Gulf Stream Orphans. I rode the subway to this dive…
Dating back to the 1950s, the Gowanus Batcave is one of the City's oldest graffiti havens. Similar to its Queens counterpart 5 Pointz, the Batcave is being demolished and converted into…
Dating back to the 1950s, the Gowanus Batcave is one of the City's oldest graffiti havens. Similar to its Queens counterpart 5 Pointz, the Batcave is being demolished and converted into…
Comedian and Gothamist video editor/producer Jeff Seal recently went out to the Brooklyn High Street station in Brooklyn Heights to see if he could actually clean the dirty, grimy subway…
We've shared local time lapse and motion lapse photographer Zack Reed a few time on Viewing NYC, and he is back with an amazing new video. Sunset on the Rocks is a great motion controlled…
One of our favorite local time lapse and hyperlapse photographers Zack Reed recently created this stunning collection of his videos throughout the year, documenting the changing seasons in…
Back in the early 1980s, when the New York City subway was a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden place, the red-beret wearing Guardian Angels would protect commuters by establish a presence on…
Charles Feltman is widely regarded as the inventor of the Hot Dog. As a German immigrant who opened a food stand on the Coney Island Boardwalk in 1867, he sought an easier way to eat…
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is America’s oldest independent urban research and advocacy organization, proposing and advising City legislators for over 90 years regarding public works…
