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Vintage Photos: 5Pointz’s Original Past as the Neptune Meter Company
Brownstoner Queens has some awesome photos and history of what 5Pointz was way before it was the beloved graffiti hotspot.
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Vintage Photos: Celebrities in 1990s NYC by Gregoire Alessandrini
Photographer Gregoire Alessandrini, who we’ve previously featured in our vintage photo column on the Meatpacking, Times Square and Iconic
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Vintage Photos: Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian is on the Site of Fort Amsterdam in NYC
In a fitting twist of fate, the site currently occupied by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian was
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Vintage Photos: Downtown Brooklyn’s Albee Theater
Located along Dekalb Avenue, an area that once had a theater presence comparable to Times Square, the Beaux-Arts Albee Theater
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Untapped Mailbag: This Vintage Photo of Columbus Circle is Misattributed in LIFE Magazine
Our article on vintage photos of Columbus Circle was super popular, but we got a good number of comments saying
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Vintage Photos: John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign in New York City
Senator Kennedy on Jack Paar’s The Tonight Show in New York City, 1959. Image via Wikimedia. As the anniversary
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Vintage Photos: Columbus Circle in NYC Over the Years Since the 1900s
Columbus Circle c. 1907. Photo from Library of Congress. Ever since Columbus Circle was redesigned in conjunction with the Time
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Vintage Photos: Construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris and NYC
Workmen constructing the Statue of Liberty in Bartholdi’s Parisian warehouse workshop; first model; left hand; and quarter-size head. Winter
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Vintage Photos: 50th Anniversary of Demolition of the Original Penn Station
Photograph by Norman McGrath Designed and built by McKim, Mead & White in 1910, the original Penn Station was built
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Jeff Cowen’s Photography of Prostitutes in the Meatpacking District in the 1980s
A recent article on Vanishing New York shines the spotlight on Jeff Cowen’s photographs of transgender sex workers in
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Vintage Photos: 1920s Traffic Towers Along Fifth Avenue
By now all of us are familiar with traffic lights, from the functionality of crosswalk buttons in New York City
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Video: What Goes into Picking Vintage Photos for The Antiques Garage in Chelsea
Robert’s Photos from Redux Pictures by Michael Kasino. If you haven’t stopped by The Antiques Garage, an annex
