Throw Back Thursday: On October 7, 1927 the first feature length motion picture premieres in Times Square at the Warner Strand using Vitagraph sound technology.
The New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers square off in the first televised World Series on September 30, 1947. Using Membit, we bring the location back to life
Throwback Thursday 1776: American hero Nathan Hale is hanged at City Hall Park. Our first in a series of augmented reality, Membit-enhanced historical stories.
On September 12, 1654 the first Rosh Hashanah services in the North America were held in New Amsterdam. That's right, we’re headed to the Stuyvesant administration.
Labor Day explained! America celebrates its first Labor Day Parade in NYC's Union Square on September 5, 1882 with a procession 20,000 people strong.
Scientific American, the country's oldest continuing published magazine releases its first edition this week in NYC history from an office on Spruce Street.
NYC goes Orange as the Dutch take back New York from the British in August 1673. New York is rechristened New Orange and the Dutch flag flies once again.
Robert Fulton changes the course of transportation history when his first successful commercial steamboat makes it's first voyage from NYC up the Hudson River.
In 1885, a quarter of million people lined the streets of NYC to bid farewell to President Ulysses S. Grant. He was laid to rest in Grant's Tomb in Riverside Park
The cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, with a time capsule, was placed on Liberty Island in 1884 without enough funding to complete the project.