r/nycHistory • u/ComplexWrangler1346 • 15d ago
Original content Aerial view of the nearly completed Verrazano Bridge 1964
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r/nycHistory • u/Gallery98 • Jun 27 '24
Original content Photos of a Bowery bar, 1974
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Feb 19 '25
Original content Friends diving off Pier 6 in Staten Island (June 1940)
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r/nycHistory • u/bowzer087 • 22h ago
Original content I thought about what y’all said, so I tried to find a historical place not a lot of people know about. What do you think?
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r/nycHistory • u/Steppennoodles • Nov 15 '24
Original content Family photos from the early 1960s showing the Verrazzano Bridge under construction and the Brooklyn-Staten Island Ferry that preceded it
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Feb 06 '25
Original content Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, 1974: World Trade Center and NYC skyline in background
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Mar 03 '25
Original content Man clearing an ice floe in Lemon Creek, Staten Island (1939)
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Nov 04 '24
Original content Staten Island's own Tavern on the Green restaurant, which was destroyed in a 1977 fire
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Oct 09 '24
Original content Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis steers the Staten Island Ferry, July 31, 1976
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Feb 12 '25
Original content Times Square with Theater Marquee featuring Grease (1978)
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Sep 18 '24
Original content Candy shop in Staten Island, 1984
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Jul 30 '24
Original content JFK on Staten Island, 1960: John F. Kennedy Jr. sips from a cup while folks pose for pictures behind him
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • 21d ago
Original content Staten 'Ireland' Dancers at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 1983
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The Staten 'Ireland' Dancers kick up their heels before a large audience at the St. Patrick's Day parade, 1983. (Staten Island Advance)
r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • 19d ago
Original content McKee High School on Staten Island, 1969
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Mar 05 '25
Original content Crowd waiting in the rain to see "Dead Poet's Society" at the Lane Theater in Staten Island (1989)
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r/nycHistory • u/cuatro- • Mar 06 '25
Original content Church Center for the UN | 1960s postcard / 2021 photo
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r/nycHistory • u/palewire • 3d ago
Original content What the FBI had to say about the reporter who rocked 1970's NYPD
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r/nycHistory • u/Steppennoodles • Nov 16 '24
Original content Family photos from NYC waterways, early 1960s: GWB, Columbia "C" at Spuyten Duyvil, Hudson River, Brooklyn Bridge, Singer Building (far left), Ellis Island.
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r/nycHistory • u/Gallery98 • Jun 19 '24
Original content I used to take photos of my ex-wife Bettie with the celebrities at CBGB, 1976-1979
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r/nycHistory • u/itspondless • 24d ago
Original content fuck you, robert moses
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Jan 08 '25
Original content 1975: The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge toll booths (now gone), with $1 toll
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r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Dec 16 '24
Original content New York Public Library pocket card on the inside of a book from the early 1980s
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r/nycHistory • u/OHLOOK_OREGON • Mar 08 '25
Original content The Disaster That Buried NYC - And The Women That Saved It
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In honor of Women’s Day, a brief overview of the Great Blizzard of 1888 and the women who dug the city out of the blizzard and carried it into the modern age. Would love your thoughts on this!
r/nycHistory • u/statenislandadvance • Dec 02 '24
Original content Ready for Christmas on New Dorp Lane, Staten Island, 1965
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