THE BLIZZARD OF 1983! Here is rare footage from the WPIX Archives of the Blizzard of 1983, which buried the tri-state area on Feb. 11-12, 1983. This footage is so cool — check out the old Automat at 42nd Street and Third Avenue, the Woolworths across the street, the old cabs and the tough New Yorkers trying not to fall. What are your memories of the Blizzard of 1983? | WPIX Archives

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4K views · 348 reactions | Happy birthday to us: WPIX turns 74 today! (We don't look a day over 21 though, right?!  ) Take a look at our station logo over the past seven decades. And thank YOU for watching and following us on TV and online through the years.  | WPIX Archives | Facebook

Ed Norton, played by actor Art Carney, was usually seen wearing a turned-up porkpie hat and an unbuttoned vest over a white T-shirt in episodes of 'The Honeymooners.' The felt porkpie hat was from Carney’s own wardrobe. He purchased the head covering in 1935 while in high school. In fact, it was the first hat he ever bought and cost him only $5. Carney’s character may have played second banana to Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden, but Gleason generously gave Carney "90% of the credit" for the succe

In this commercial, Rosie the diner waitress was played by veteran actor Nancy Walker. Walker was a Broadway and film star who is probably best known as the mother of Rhoda Morgenstern on the 'Mary Tyler Moore' show. When asked about the role in this commercial in a 1976 interview with the NY Times, Ms. Walker responded, “Look, if it were a bad minute, I'd feel terrible, because I get paid very well, and that would be cheating. I'm not cheating anybody. I mean, an artist is an artist no matter w