Nyc history

Mulberry Bend, Five Points, opposite the old brewery, New York, New York, late 19th or early 20th century.

Before Manhattan formed its grid, its residents raised hogs and chickens. The Museum of the City of New York reveals what NYC looked like as farmland.

From an abandoned subway station to a colonial African burial ground lost for almost 300 years, we've rounded up the city’s best kept secrets.

Pictures hold something truly special—a speck of time that once was and shall never be again. They’re the closest thing we have to a time machine, allowing us to glimpse through a window of film and into the past.

The Five Points was an NYC neighborhood famed for its violence and debauchery. Read more about the Five Points on StreetEasy's One Block Over.

From NYC in the Sixties by Klaus Lehnartz (1978)

The brothers came from a well-to-do family. However, their father, Dr.

New York City's luxurious old Waldorf-Astoria hotel was among America's first big hotels. When it was built during the Victorian era, it was considered the finest hotel in the world - and soon became the most famous, too.

To fully experience New York City, you have to eat. And then eat some more. So inextricably linked with its food, the city’s social and cultural history requires an exploration of its endless cuisines.

Forget the Second Avenue subway—we’re obsessed with this elevated train on Third Avenue. In a new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum, there are vintage phot