Our Historic Image Archive includes thousands of historic photos of our neighborhoods and NYC. Today we explore a few of the images captured in the month of August in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. This photo from our 9/11 Memorial Photos collection was taken by Deborah Kadetsky on her way to an outdoor Radiohead […]
Greenwich Village’s Hudson River piers have always held a certain clandestine fascination for some segment of the public. After an automobile crash caused the elevated West Side Highway to collapse in December of 1973, Piers 18 – 52 fell into a derelict state, creating a dystopian yet incredibly private space for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers to […]
The landmark documentary Paris Is Burning was released in New York on March 13, 1991. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, the film is an intimate peek into New York’s LGBTQ culture, specifically ball competitions, where participants dress, dance, and compete in a number of themed categories. Paris Is Burning received rave reviews upon its release, […]
