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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Tammany Hall
New York’s first mayoral election in 1834: Riots, chaos and the election of New York’s ‘crying congressman’
New York in 1834, looking up Broadway from Bowling Green (NYPL) New Yorkers will go to the polls today to
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The Boy Mayor of New York: John Purroy Mitchel and a series of unfortunate events shake up a New York election
John Purroy Mitchel, the ‘boy mayor’, after his resounding victory. (LOC)PODCAST As New York City enters the final stages of
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Meet Andrew H. Mickle, perhaps the least qualified man to ever serve as the mayor of New York City
New York City Hall and its brand new water fountain, in 1846, courtesy Currier and Ives (LOC)KNOW YOUR MAYORS A modest
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Fernando Wood: More on Lincoln’s wily scoundrel
While the Confederacy may be the enemy in Stephen Spielberg‘s new film ‘Lincoln‘, it is a defeated and toothless one,
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Tammany Hall hosts the city’s first Democratic Convention: Susan B. Anthony, the KKK, and a reluctant nominee
Many of you may remember New York’s sole Republican National Convention, held in 2004 at Madison Square Garden, celebrating the
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Defying gravity: New York’s most famous daredevils
Bird in the sky: The delicate Ms. Millman makes it look easyLast night on my walk home, I observed something
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A chemical company in Union Square sells a kingly elixir
One hundred years ago today (June 23), the big news was the coronation of England’s King George at Westminster Abbey.
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The ‘barbarous customs’ of a New York Fourth of July
Pic courtesy LOC The caption for the above 1894 illustration, looking back to headier days, reads: “Have we improved upon
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Mayor John O’Brien: his heart is as black as yours!
Above: An unemployment line in November 1933. The O’Brien administration offers no relief to the city. KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our
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New York governor resigns* in disgrace (in 1913)!
STRESSED: William Sulzer in 1911, a New York City representative on his way up…and out *okay, technically he was removed
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Mayor Cadwallader D. Colden: Would grandpa be proud?
KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of
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Mayor Aaron Clark: lucky Whig and New York lotto king!
KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of
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Mayor Charles Godfrey Gunther, Coney Island-bound
KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of
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Martling’s Long Room: power plays, power drinkers
Well, would you?Illustration from sheet music 1908 FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER To get you in the mood for the weekend, every
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