JIMMY CARTER ON WPIX IN 1976: Here's a snippet of film from the WPIX Archives from the 1976 presidential campaign -- Jimmy Carter was in town to attend the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden. (Check out the classic Channel 11 and Metromedia 5 microphone flags, BTW.) We learned on Wednesday that the former president, who is 90, is fighting cancer. Our thoughts go out to him and his family. | WPIX Archives

Happy birthday to us! WPIX turns 70 years old today — here's a look at some of our best moments. You can see so much more in our one-hour special airing Saturday at 4 and 11 p.m. Keep sharing your PIX memories and THANK YOU for watching and following us here. | WPIX Archives

INDEPENDENCE IS HERE! In the mid 1970s, with the Bicentennial set to be celebrated in July 1976, America went crazy over all things Colonial. This ad, which aired on WPIX 40 years ago this summer, gets into the 1770s spirit in announcing that South Brooklyn Savings Bank has a new name -- Independence Savings Bank. It then jumps to the 1970s, and shows us the modern convenience of an ... auto teller. The renamed bank survived until 2006, when it was swallowed by Sovereign. Today, you can still st

Restored footage of areas of New York City, United States, filmed between 1901 and 1903. See the bustling streets of Lower Broadway, see a panoramic view of New York from the Hudson River before most of the famous New York skyscrapers were built, see the traffic in front of the newly constructed Fuller Building that went on to be known as the Flatiron, see Madison Square at the turn of the century, and see the full trams of New York on Broadway and Union Square. These historical films of New Yor