Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America

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Courtney Harmel describes the NYC art scene and night life in the 1980s

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The oldest and most incredible footage of New York City known to exist, including where the WTC would be built. With added maps carefully researched to show where the camera was. 28 shots of classic footage with a new twist and a new soundtrack.

This collection of footage was taken between 1896 and 1905 and shows various places around New York City, all identifiable by location on a map.

In order they are:

1. Panorama from Times Building, New York – W. 42nd Street and 7th Avenue, up 6th Ave ending at Times Square

2. Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. ending at the Old Grand Central Station

3. Opening of New East River Bridge, New York – Williamsburg Bridge, on the East River

4. ‘Move On’ – A fruit market somewhere on the lower East Side

5. At the Foot of The Flatiron, or Fuller Building on Broadway and 23rd Street, on the Broadway side near the narrow north corner.

6. Parade of “Exempt” Firemen – Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village) showing Washington Square Arch

7. Panorama of Blackwell’s Island, N.Y. – Heading along the eastern shore of Blackwell’s Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. Shows Lighthouse Park and the construction of the Queensboro Bridge over Roosevelt Island, with Manhattan in the far background.

8. Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River – On the Hudson River, looking toward the piers of Lower Manhattan. Shows approximately where the World Trade Center would be located many years later.

9. Old site of the New York Aquarium (which moved to Coney Island in 1957) and Battery Park.

10. Panorama of Flatiron Building – Looking south from Madison Square across Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street

11. Parade of Horses on Speedway – on the West Bank of the Harlem River, Highbridge in North Manhattan. Taken from Harlem River Drive, the footage shows the old High Bridge at 175th Street and the Washington Bridge at 181st Street

12. Lower Broadway – Looking north up Lower Broadway from Wall Street, at the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery

13. Looking along the length of 23rd Street, with the elevated EI in the background.

14. Time-lapse demolition of the Star Theatre on 13th Street and Broadway.

15. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Parade on Fifth Avenue

16. Skating on the Lake – Ice skating in Central Park

17. Dewey Arch stood at Madison Square over 5th Avenue between 25th and 24th Streets. It was demolished in 1900.

18. Automobile Parade – Downtown Manhattan on the corner of E. 27th Street and Madison Avenue, with the old Madison Square Garden in the background (now the New York Life Building). Stanford White, the building’s architect, was murdered in the rooftop restaurant.

19. New York Police Parade – Parade turning into 14th Street from Broadway. In the background is Morton Hose, today the Union Square Theatre.

20. A month earlier from almost the same spot, footage shows the great blizzard that year. In the background is the statue of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. The statue still stands today.

21. Union Square – a fight between two newspaper sellers, likely young boys.

22. Panorama from the Tower of Brooklyn Bridge

23. Liberty Island – the island which holds the Statue of Liberty was called Bedloe’s Island until 1956. The statue was erected 12 years before this footage was taken.

24. Racing At Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island. Old maps indicate that the race track was east of Ocean Avenue, between avenues X and Y.

25. Union Square, looking north-east from the corner of E 16th Street, with 33 E.17th Street Center Publishing Company in the background.

26. Mounted Police in Central Park

27. Bergen Beach near Coney Island. Shooting the Chutes was one of the first amusement rides.

28. The oldest footage of New York City ever – 11 May 1896 – Herald Square, at the intersection of Broadway, 6th Avenue and 34th Street.

Credits:
Panorama from Times Building, New York
Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St.
At the Foot of The Flatiron
Parade of “Exempt” Firemen
Panorama of Flatiron Building
Parade of Horses on Speedway
Lower Broadway
Delivering Newspapers
Panorama from the Tower of Brooklyn Bridge
Star Theatre
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Parade
Skating on Lake
Dewey Arch
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, PD-US

Opening of New East River Bridge, New York
Move On
Panorama of Blackwell’s Island, N.Y.
Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River
What Happened On 23rd Street
Automobile Parade
New York Police Parade
Racing At Sheepshead Bay
Coney Island
Herald Square
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., PD-US

All footage:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Photo of World Trade Center – Andrew Fogg
Music
iStock
Freestockmusic.com
Produced by Yestervid © 2014

Courtesy of the New York Public Library Archives.

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Watch this amazing New York City 1993 HD Footage.  Ready to time travel and go back to the fashions, the hair styles, the fence around the reservoir and, sadly of course, the World Trade Center towers.  Great footage and a great way to see New York City as it was.

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Philippe Petit speaking about FEAR. Petit walked a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York in August 1974 and was featured in the Academy Award Winning Documentary Man on Wire directed by James Marsh.  He is also the subject of Robert Zemeckis’ 2015 film The Walk–starring Joseph Gordon Levitt.  Hear Petit discusses fear and how we can address our fear.  Though he says he doesn’t really have fear on the wire, it is in real life where we all face fear.  His suggestion is to know is to love, thus we must learn to love that which we fear.

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Al Seedman, the former NYC Chief of Detectives, discusses how they caught the murderer of Kitty Genovese and explains how the investigation improved police department procedures. When Genovese was murdered on March 13, 1964, reportedly near neighbors who ignored her cries for help, it triggered the beginning of research into the bystander effect.

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Disco Wiz and Grandmaster Caz, two D.J.’s in New York City during the early 1970s, give their account of what it was like to be present during the chaotic New York City blackout of 1977. The two describe the day of the blackout, recalling that they were D.J.-ing for a crowd in the city when all of a sudden the blackout hit and everything went dark. They remember immediately hearing crashing windows and seeing “families carrying furniture down the street” as people began looting the shutdown city. The two also attribute the growing population of D.J.’s in the city to the blackout, claiming that expensive D.J.-ing equipment stolen by looters allowed them to more easily enter the profession.

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Marla Wasser, organizer of Andy Warhol’s Factory 2009, walks viewers through the process of setting up the museum, which is a multi-media celebration of Warhol’s work (he died in1987). Well known pieces of art show include those of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and more. The museum contains 60+ pieces of his art, along with art that was inspired by Warhol.

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The Art Committee of the Union League Club held a meeting led by William Cullen Bryant to discuss the creation of The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 23, 1869, in the Theatre of the Club on Twenty-sixth Street. Invitations were sent to the members of the Union League Club, the National Academy of Design and other artists, the Institute of Architects, the New York Historical Society, the Century, Manhattan, and other clubs.

Fortunately Alfred J. Bloor remembers what happened that same evening after the public meeting.

Well I remember the ‘sea of upturned faces’ and the applause that greeted the venerable poet and publicist as he (William Cullen Bryant) rose to address the audience, as well as the dead silence that followed when he opened his lips to speak.

I recall the supper (still under the roof of the hospitable Union League Club) which followed the formal endorsement of the preliminary labors of the months before- hand. The supper party consisted of twelve, thus escaping by only one the unlucky number. The participants consisted of Mr. Bryant, who occupied the head of the table; Mr. Putnam, Mr. A very, Prof. Comfort; two clergymen, Drs. Bellows and Thompson; three painters, Messrs. Kensett, Baker, and Whittredge; and three of my own profession, Cal- vert Vaux, Consulting Architect of the Central Park Board, P. B. Wight, architect of the National Academy of Design, and myself.

Much good humor prevailed over the result of the previous exertions of those who had been most active in the premises. There was a free exchange of opinion as to the prospects of the new-born institution and as to available methods for carrying it to success, to which and to the chief workers so far toasts were pledged.

To read more about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and it’s opening on April 13, 1870 visit The Internet Archive’s website.

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Watch newsreel footage of Vietnam War protesters marching against the conflict and burning their draft cards in New York City and San Francisco during the April 15, 1967 Peace March.

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