Drinking to the New Year, N.Y. (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

I'm pleased to have my first (of what I hope will be many) contributions to NewYorkology.com up on the site today.

The picture above doesn't just express my mood, though -- it's part of the Bain News Service collection of old news photos from 1910-1915.  The Library of Congress is working together with Flickr users to tag the photos for future historians.  My post covering the initiative is here...but  the real fun is poring through all the old shots, trying to spot the locations, and seeing what's changed (and what hasn't) in almost a hundred years.