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Happy Friday—Bop City nightclub, New York, 1950 (Anonymous photographer) via theshinyboogie

Marlon Brando blows it. New York, 1940s. via wehadfacesthen

hollyhocksandtulips:

New York City, 1950

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt

My latest post for laughingsquid features video of a startlingly Fast Striptease from 1942 by Georgia Sothern, aka The Human Dynamo. And some awesome vintage posters featuring her to boot. Have a great weekend!

The glorious and fun Stained Glass Water Tower in Brooklyn designed by Tom Fruin via anneyhall

HBO’s Boardwalk Empire & Uber Team Up to Offer New Yorkers Rides in a Vintage 1920′s Vehicle. Hell’s yeah. Via laughingsquid

Department of Philosophy | NYU designed by Steven Holl Architects via theabsolution:

(via blocodeespantamentos)

oh hey! Manhattanhenge just happened! via amnhnyc:

Four nights a year, the streets of Manhattan’s grid become the site for a spectacular sunset phenomenon known as “Manhattanhenge.” As Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, who discovered the phenomenon and coined the term “Manhattanhenge,” explains in his Hayden Planetarium blog, Manhattanhenge takes place “when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight.” 

Photo courtesy of Katie Killary

Awesome. Incidental build up to a Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke collaborating in Kubrick’s NYC apartment. via oldnewyork

(via mudwerks)

Andy Warhol at Gristede’s supermarket, New York (1962) (via The Failsafe Gift Guide - Andy Warhol ‘Giant’ Size) via pjmix

(via tweedarms)

wow. I had actually never realized that was the scale. that’s kind of crazy.

Fixed width cities FTW!

jenlindblad:

Manhattan juxtaposed with San Francisco at a 1:1 scale.

Chris Cobb’s ”Admit it, you think New York is really just better than San Francisco in every way” on SFMOMA’s blog open space.

(via neighborhoodr-sanfrancisco)