This great vintage film shows an "Old timers" game for war bonds in 1943, at the old Polo Grounds stadium in Washington Heights. The exhibition game featured several famous baseball players…
This hand illustrated birds eye view map of Midtown Manhattan was created by cartographer Hermann Bollmann for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens. One of the greatest cartographic…
Hell's Kitchen's Mike Felber is part of the freegan anti-consumerism movement that reclaims perfectly edible food that has been thrown out. Food reclamation is accomplished mostly though…
dOGUMENTA is a cool new art gallery presented by Arts Brookfield that is coming to Brookfield Place this summer and is calling itself America's first art show for dogs. Not of or by dogs,…
Back in May after the end of NYU's regular school year, local comedian Jeff Seal decided to document a holiday he calls "Punk Christmas," a special occasion where departing students throw…
The George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey and Manhattan is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge according to the Port Authority. With so much traffic, keeping up with repairs…
In a small 70s style hawker centre, we meet Ismail and Hamida who are probably the only ones who make the Indian Karipap from scratch. In contrast to their simple lives, three young hawkers…
dOGUMENTA is a cool new art gallery presented by Arts Brookfield that is coming to Brookfield Place this weekend and is calling itself America's first art show for dogs. Not of or by dogs,…
Underneath the old Bereket Turkish restaurant and current construction site on Houston and Orchard lies artifacts dating back to the 1860's. The artifacts were found within an old outhouse,…
As a follow-up to our previous post on Martin Luther King Jr. in New York City, here is a speech Dr. King gave at the Park Sheraton Hotel on September 12, 1962. The speech honors the…
