Just steps way from the new Hudson Yards is a poignant memorial to Abraham Lincoln
The massive new Hudson Yards development, the shiny new collection of glass towers built atop the West Side Yards which
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When Brooklyn Was Queer: The forgotten history of gay existence on the periphery of urban life
Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer embarks on a modern quest to find the roots of the LGBTQ community in
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Why New York City needs a tribute to Billie Holiday, our sweet Lady Day (UPDATE: They’re building it!)
UPDATE (March 11, 2019): The city has announced that it will commission a Billie Holiday memorial, joining new statues for
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Boss Tweed’s House of Corruption: A Tale of Crooked Schemes and Unchecked Power
PODCAST: How the Tweed Courthouse became a symbol for everything rotten about 19th century American politics. The roots of modern
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‘Only In New York’: PIX11’s new crime doc mini-series — Watch the first two episodes here
Greg Young of the Bowery Boys podcast is just one of the many New York City experts and historians to
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The Bowery Boys are hosting an awards show — the 5th Annual GANYC Apple Awards (March 4)
The GANYC Apple Awards, given out by the Guides Association of New York City, celebrate the best in New York
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WILD BILL: The real man behind a Western legend — and a reluctant Broadway stage star
“Hickok was a celebrity. He was famous. He was feared. He was already a legend. It is estimated that over
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Insanity: 160 years ago today, Congressman Daniel Sickles shot and killed the son of Francis Scott Key
On the 160th anniversary of the killing of Phillip Barton Key, I’m reposting this article from 2014 which originally ran
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Scott Joplin in New York: A Ragtime Mystery
PODCAST How did one of the greatest composers of the 20th century end up buried in Queens in a pauper’s
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Celebrating New York City history at the Oscars: Julius Bar, Minetta Lane, Madison Square Garden
Films honored annually at the Academy Awards usually have a historical backdrop — lavish sets and period-accurate costumes plucked from
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Romare Bearden: ‘An American Odyssey’ through the Harlem Renaissance and the SoHo art scene
Sometimes an artist’s biography can work on two levels, providing both the sweep of history within the subject matter of
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Happy New Year! Photographs from over a century of Chinese New Year celebrations in Manhattan
Head over to Chinatown this Sunday afternoon (February 17, starting at 1pm) for the Lunar New Year Parade and Festival, topping
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Nazis In New York: Watch the Oscar-nominated documentary short “A Night At The Garden”
Events such as these used to be unthinkable, anomalies of history that once played like speculative fiction. But this really
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Auntie Mame is here! The Bowery Boys Movie Club visits the most glamorous lady on Beekman Place
Welcome to the Bowery Boys Movie Club, an exclusive Patreon podcast where Tom and Greg discuss classic New York City
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Walt Whitman at 200: Celebrating his life and legacy in the cities of New York and Brooklyn
A very special episode of the Bowery Boys podcast, recorded live at the Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn, celebrating the
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