The Story of SoHo: The Iron-Clad History of ‘Hell’s Hundred Acres’
PODCAST The history of SoHo, New York’s 19th century warehouse district turned shopping mecca Picture the neighborhood of SoHo (that’s
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History in the Making 11/18: Celebrated Jumping Frogs Edition
Hoppin’ History: Samuel Clemens broke through 150 years ago today. The man who would become Mark Twain first published his
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Billie Holiday’s New York: Here’s to Swing Street, Harlem’s 133rd Street and other landmarks of jazz
PODCAST Grab your fedora and take a trip with the Bowery Boys into the heart of New York City’s jazz
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Union busted: Hotel and restaurant workers end their strike
Above: Restaurant workers walk off the job at Sherry’s Restaurant at Fifth Avenue in 1912 One hundred years ago today,
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The Fifth Avenue Hotel: Opulence atop a potter’s field, and accommodations for heated Republican power brokering
By the date of this photo (1890), the Fifth Avenue Hotel, facing Madison Square Park, had already seen its share
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Troubled times: Dr. King and Abe Lincoln visit New York
February 1961: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is presented with an award by the Americans for Democratic Action. On either
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And a little something silly for Friday: The Hotel Seville was a brilliant Beaux-Arts jewel exemplar of the glory days
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A TV shout-out to a debonair palace for independent women
postcard from Old New York With Mad Men making its return last night on AMC, myself and many other bloggers
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Before CBGB’s, parties at 315 Bowery were for the birds
Above: The first of hundreds of Bowery hotels — the old Gotham Inn in 1862. The inn, which dated from
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Antoni Gaudi’s grand New York hotel — built by sci-fi
Joshua Jackson, looking down at Gaudi in an alternate universe. Courtesy Fringe Files I promise, this is my last post
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Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky….
Above: Lena Horne at the Copacabana, October 1948 Lena Horne, the Brooklyn-born entertainer who broke color barriers in the New
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Cocktails with ‘Mad Men’ at the Hotel Pierre
The following posting is littered with television spoilers, so please avert your eyes if you’re a ‘Mad Men’ fan who
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Postcard from the Past: New York, September 1959
TEXT: “Sept 16th and 17th 1959‘Ice Capades’Plymouth Hotel Fire at 4:30 AMThursdayMerman in ‘Gypsy’” The Hotel Chesterfield (130-136 West 49th
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