Here are the latest odds and ends to digest in our ongoing Miscellany series. First up is this mini-ad, part of a series that ran in 1936. ...

A tip of the hat to the inspired Instagrammers whose work makes up this week's post. by gabriellerosenberg by Lucas_D_in_NYC          b...

A look at some editorial content that ran in The New Yorker in 1929 . ⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺ The first piece is by Marcia Davenport, who wrote a column for...

This week, more photos from the WPA/NYC Tax Department's quest in 1940 to photograph every building in the five boroughs for reasons un...

Today's episode of our Anatomy series takes a close-up look at the northwest corner of 42nd Street and First Avenue. This view also incl...

  The western wall of the South Park, then and now. 2017 The photo shows barbed wire atop a fence separating the South Park's garden fro...

  A look at some Tudor City advertising that ran early in the Depression.  Its cutting edge art deco look coupled with its last phrase ‒ Unu...