The Seamen's Church Institute, a floating church moored off Pike Street in NYC, was founded in 1834 by a group of Episcopalian sailors.
Before Lincoln Center, there was San Juan HIll. Learn about the vibrant neighborhood that was bulldozed and lost by none other than Robert Moses.
Robert Mulero shared with us photographs of New York City's historic bishop's crook lampposts, which he's been photographing since the 1970s.
This fun clip that's being shared around social media lately is from the 1928 silent film Speedy, starring comedian Harold Lloyd and directed by Ted Wilde.
The website My Inwood has some great then & now pictures of this northern neighborhood on Manhattan, which remained very rural into the early 20th century.
The site of the present day New York Life Insurance Building was previously P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome, and then Madison Square Garden.
These are the first known photographs of New York City and of a human being in Paris, taken using the daguerreotype technique from 1838 to 1853.
Image via Library of Congress We all know the Chrysler Building in New York City–that it was once the world’s tallest
Vintage photos of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, whose stage has been graced by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Billie Holiday, turns 80 years old this Sunday.
In 1964, Mayor Robert F. Wagner awarded Martin Luther King Jr. the Medallion of Honor and declared him an "honorary New Yorker". See photos of Dr. King in NYC.