Back in 2011, we wrote a blog post pondering the fate of Frederick MacMonnies's sculpture "Civic Virtue," which is the sub...

Edgar Allan Poe didn't live in New York City all that long, but he left an indelible stamp on the city. Of all the places he lived, o...

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the massive ticker tape parade held for the Apollo 11 astronauts: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, an...

At the entrance to Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street sits a small landscaped area known as Grand Army Plaza (which, among othe...

This image, produced around 1915, shows the first phase of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (center), St. Luke's Hospital (to the ...

If you stand in the middle of Times Square, you'll immediately notice two things: first, that's a lot of costumed Elmos in such a...

On July 16, 1941, New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hit safely in his 56th consecutive game, setting a Major League record that has never been...

Since tomorrow the U.S. women's soccer team is being feted with a ticker tape parade , we searched our archives high and low for a postc...

Happy Actual Independence Day ! Today's postcard was mailed exactly ninety-seven years ago on July 2, 1908. It depicts what was th...

Yikes! Another Postcard Thursday on Friday? We won't make a habit of it, we promise. Nor will we make habit out of recycling material...