We've spent the past few weeks looking back through Steven Siegel's photo archive, which beautifully retells the city's story over the past three decades, from the South Bronx to Bushwick. From utter destruction to Disneyfication. Turns out that Siegel also filmed what was going on throughout all that time, and his videos are no less spectacular. You can watch them all at his YouTube page (some even tell a story), and our favorites are below: more ›

We just stumbled upon this sweet vintage video on a trip down the Youtube rabbit hole, showing a Manhattan couple trying to make their tiny apartment into a livable space. People from the 1950s: they're just like us! more ›

Travel back to the East Village circa 1967 with this newly released vintage footage, taken before overpriced cocktail dens and a well-heeled contingent saturated the area. This is the year that the East Village that we know now became known as the East Village, no longer being considered a part of the Lower East Side (it was June 5th, 1967, the NY Times declared that the area "had come to be known" as the East Village). Dangerous Minds writes: more ›

Generation Grunge is growing up, or rather, getting old. Recently it was announced that Nirvana's Nevermind is turning 20 this September, and now Pearl Jam is celebrating the big 2-0 with a Cameron Crowe documentary called Pearl Jam Twenty (they're actually turning 21—their first show, under the band name Mookie Blaylock, was October 22nd, 1990 at the Off Ramp Club in Seattle). It will be released in December, and here's what to expect on your journey back in time: more ›

Graffiti-covered subway cars! Graffiti-covered buses! It's New York City in the 1970s, as seen through the eyes of disgruntled straphangers. The below clip has choice soundbites from locals at the time; one woman declares, "The subways are crummy, and they're dangerous. You get pushed, you get shoved, sometimes you get mugged in the subway... during the daylight.” And people weren't happen with the way the MTA was running things then, either. Another woman says, "I can remember when public transportation was one of the prides of New York... what's happened?" Indeed. more ›

We've looked back at Times Square in 1986 before, but that was above ground... what was happening underneath all the action? One tourist from the time just uploaded his 25 year old footage to YouTube, saying while on a visit he "was going in the underground at 43nd St & Times Square" to film. He recently "opened my archive once again with the original film and composed it with the original stereo sound to this over 10 minutes long 'directors cut' of all scenes I filmed at this day in June 1986. Enjoy it!" more ›

Here's some amazing footage of a trip across the Brooklyn Bridge... in 1899. It was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Co., and copyrighted by Thomas Edison on September 22nd, 1899. The film starts in Brooklyn and ends in Manhattan: more ›

The Anthology Film Archive has some silent film footage (16mm, black & white) of Astor Place; while no date is posted, some are guessing it's from the early 1960s. What do you think? more ›

Today during Natavia Lowery's trial, the defense showed a video that the NY Post says "bags" her as the killer of Linda Stein. In it, she passes through the lobby of her boss's apartment several times on the day of her murder. She's holding a red bag with something heavy in it, and a green bag belonging to Stein. more ›

Police are searching for the three men who robbed a Bushwick bodega on Jan. 11. The perps — one of whom was carrying gun — entered the Evergreen Avenue grocery at around 4:30 am and assaulted a clerk and a customer, the Village Voice reports. They also disabled a security camera, but not before two of the suspects were caught on film. The camera-breaker and his accomplices are described "as Hispanic and between 5'6" and 5'9" and 20 and 30 years of age." Here's the video: more ›

Street gangs used to have way cooler names — like, say, the Devil's Rebels for instance. Now there's some amazing footage that's resurfaced of the '70s Bushwick gang, originally broadcast as part of a 1976 newscast. The footage was allegedly captured using a night vision lens and concealed cameras, and Bushwick BK notes that it all goes down in the 83rd Precinct, "a battleground for the police and young street criminals, where a teenage gang roams the streets at night looking for trouble." more ›

The police have taken fingerprints from the bike believed to have been trashed by the Times Square bomber. They are also looking for traces of DNA left on the bike and checking cellphone transmissions in the area during Thursday early morning, which is when a bomb exploded outside the army recruiting center. more ›

Some Capitol Hill offices received letters claiming responsibility for this morning's bombing in Times Square. WNBC reports that the letters, which arrived today, included a photo of the Army recruiting center "before it was bombed and...the words 'We did it.'" more ›

The NYPD released surveillance footage of this morning's explosion near the Army recruiting center in Times Square. The footage shows a bicyclist approaching the building and an explosion taking place after he leaves. more ›