On top of the Empire State Building in 1932.
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1887. Penny Farthing Bicycles line up for a Race for the Harvard Bicycle Club, NYC.
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Penn Station, 1910 | 1:1 concourse reconstruction
New York’s original Pennsylvania Station opened in 1910. Its demolition became one of the defining cases in the city’s preservation history. I reconstructed the station’s train concourse at full scale as a fully playable environment in Unreal Engine. This was a solo project built from archival photographs, architectural plans, and blueprints. I figured y'all might appreciate this! :)…
Winning an NBA title after 53 years = Modern New York History.
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Washington’s Retreat | Part 3 of 5: The View From Cobble Hill
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The Bizarre True Story of Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum
For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying the park's dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder. The real villain wasn’t Tweed at all, but Henry Hilton, a New York lawyer who was appointed to oversee the city’s parks. The whole weird tale: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaur-museum-central-park-boss-tweed-nyc submitted by /u/atlasobscura [link]…
The 1889 Henry and Felicia Ressmeyer House at 348 West 122nd St: A Harlem brownstone changes with the times
The construction cost of the three-story 16-foot-wide brownstone was $11,000. By the mid-1920s private homes in Harlem were converted to rooming houses. submitted by /u/brick-underground [link] [comments]
Washington’s Retreat | Part 2 of 5: The Fort Built to Save New York
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An 1885 Photo of a Fresh Oyster Stand at the Harbour near South Street. Over-Harvesting wiped out the Oyster Beds .
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Why was ESB and Chrysler Building built in low density Midtown instead of high-density lower Manhattan?
I always wondered, they look so out of place in old photos! submitted by /u/Paracosmptx [link] [comments]