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Bowery Boys BookshelfJuly 1, 2022
Playboy Magazine called Herb Cohen "the world's greatest negotiator" and whether or not that was true, Cohen could convince you that it most certainly was. He wrote You Can Negotiate Anything and in 1982 it became a best-seller during a wave of self-help books.…
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The superstar and civil rights activist Lena Horne had such a dynamic, multi-faceted and enduring career -- starting in 1933, she worked regularly well into the…
Privateers have been much maligned in history, so much so that perhaps you didn't realize their important role in gaining America its independence from Great Britain.…
Frances Ethel Gumm was born 100 years ago (June 10, 1922) in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a world away from the glamour of Hollywood and the lights…
The tale of two artist's models named Hettie Anderson and Thomas McKeller -- their stories little known until recent years -- and the magnificent art they…
In 1857 Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell threw open the doors to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children at 58 Bleecker Street, revolutionary as being…
Welfare Island (once the more enticingly named Blackwell's Island) was New York's depository of human services, once a dour place of horrifying asylums and miserable workhouses. In…
When a terrible fire swept through lower Manhattan on the late evening of December 16, 1835, and into the morning, many believed the city would never recover.…
The Met Gala is the most outrageously glamorous event in New York City, a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute that also serves as a kickoff…
Westchester County contains some of the most interesting and historic sites in New York State -- from Glen Island and Rye Playland along the Long Island…
People have schemed to put a bridge over the Hudson River for well over two hundred years. That task would prove most difficult to those in…
Over fifteen hundred people died the night the Titanic sank, April 14-15, 1912. The early reports from the New York newspapers, of course, spent their time…
THE GILDED GENTLEMAN PODCAST As writer Edith Wharton began to spend more and more time in Paris during the early years of the 1900s, she made…
