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A new website maps Depression-era tax photos of every building in the city, making it easier for researchers and history buffs to navigate several hundred thousand snapshots of buildings from 1940s ...

It is no longer essential to provide exact addresses from seven decades ago to look for a New York connection. With names, free searches of the 1940 U.S. census first made public in April will unlock ...

What do Dr. Seuss, Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker have in common? They all worked for PM, a highly progressive New York newspaper that covered local and international news. If you’ve never heard ...

Arteries of New York City, a documentary by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, is a fascinating look at New York's transportation infrastructure in the 1940s. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, the film ...

Welcome to our new Weekly Map series, where we will highlight quirky urban maps, both vintage and present. Steven Romalewski, director of City University of New York’s Urban Mapping Service, told us ...