Thank You Mom

We went around New York City asking real people on the street to say thank you to their mothers.

Video: Michael Marantz

Ed note: After you have thanked your mom, give her one of these unorthodox foods for Mother’s Day.

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In Focus: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives

The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more. Alan Taylor spent hours lost in these amazing photos, and gathered this group together to give you just a glimpse of what’s been made available from this remarkable collection.

See more. [Images: NYC Municipal Archives]

Everyone one of these — every single one — is fantastic.

Just Some Painters Hanging Out on the Brooklyn Bridge…No Big Deal

…the photographer was Eugene de Salignac, a municipal worker who took 20,000 photographs of modern Manhattan in the making.

Photo: Painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 7, 1914. AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures, Eugene de Salignac

The Violin Maker

Meet Sam Zygmuntowicz, the man who crafts violins for some of the best musicians in the world.

Ed note: Read how 3-D imaging is making it possible to study the anatomy of a Stradivarius.

New York Stock Exchange

Photograph by Richard Lasch (Richmond, Virginia), June 2008, New York, New York

141 minutes after the New Year

Photograph by Anatoly Rodionov (Manassas, Virginia), January 2009, New York, New York

Today’s Editors’ Picks Photograph

“Waiting for the bus in front of library (NYC Public Library)”

Photograph by Tom Bell Blankenship