Using this interactive map, republished by the CUNY Graduate Center from a 1943 “NYC Market Analysis” newspaper feature, we can see snapshots of what life used to be like back in the day. The roads ...

Welcome to our new Weekly Map series, where we will highlight quirky urban maps, both vintage and present. Steven Romalewski, director of City University of New York’s Urban Mapping Service, told us ...

Lena Horne sings at the Daily News’ Harvest Moon Ball at Madison Square Garden. The Brooklyn-born singer (1917) made her singing debut at 16 in Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. A star of MGM musicals in ...

A new website maps Depression-era tax photos of every building in the city, making it easier for researchers and history buffs to navigate several hundred thousand snapshots of buildings from 1940s ...

Robert H. Jackson was a Democrat from New York. That’s the first thing to know. He also didn’t have a law degree, which may explain why he understood the law so well. If you want to better understand ...

Arteries of New York City, a documentary by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, is a fascinating look at New York's transportation infrastructure in the 1940s. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, the film ...

NEW YORK -- Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers -- from Joe ...

The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press photographer, Weegee. Weegee, whose real name was Arthur Felig, was a New York City ...

Movies began on the East Coast. Fort Lee, to be exact. Then, around 1910 — in the conventional telling — they moved to Hollywood, and never looked back. But Teaneck film historian Richard Koszarski ...

It’s no Glass House, but a rare and long-forgotten Philip Johnson-designed home now on the market has a bit more teeth to it—at least in name. The celebrated mid-century architect’s Wolfhouse, located ...