One of the earliest film footage of the Walter Snow Fighter in 1930s in NYC, a 4 wheel drive snow plow built by the Walter Motor Truck Company, Inc.
The exhibit "New Land...New Life" is a pictorial view of an Italian family's migration to America and NYC in 1957 documented by noted photographer Marvin Koner
When C.K.G. Billings constructed a $250,000 driveway for his mansion, Fort Tryon Hall, perched 250 feet above the Hudson River, he got some help from a cow.
The exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York deconstructs the myths that surround the NYC social reformer.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation (GVSHP) has released its historic photo archive, a growing collection of vintage NYC photos.
When Stanley Kubrick was just 17 years old, he began working at LOOK Magazine in NYC. MNCY has 15000+ photos of NYC life from his assignments over five years.
A look back at the used bookstores that once filled NYC's 4th Avenue. With the exception of the Strand, many have been lost, forced to close due to rising rents
The construction of NYC's Woolworth Building, one of the tallest buildings in the world was such a feat there are many vintage photos documenting the process.
Washington Heights contains one of NYC's great concentrations of pre-war apartment houses, with many retaining much of their original architectural grandeur.
The Glen H. Curtiss Airport (later North Beach Airport) existed on the same property LaGuardia Airport, but consisted of just three gravel runways and hangars.