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MuseumsNovember 4, 2015
One hundred years ago, the American Museum of Natural History received a massive visitor, one so mighty that the doors of the museum's delivery room "had to be removed and [the] partition openings enlarged" in order to accommodate it. Was it a dinosaur? A…
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St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery is the oldest standing structure in the East Village. Upon seeing it, you're almost forced to reevaluate where you are. It's intriguing even…
The New York Mets, 2015 National League Champions and New York's perpetual baseball underdogs, are only 53 years, formed in 1962 to fill the void after the…
Yale University has sprung a beautiful present onto the Internet -- a searchable database of over 170,000 public-domain photographs created by the United States Farm Security…
There are a great many statues in New York City of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, a rather controversial figure today who many consider to be a sadist and a…
Here is the complete collection of Bowery Boys Halloween specials. Creep yourself out while listening to these spooky legends of New York City. From the haunted…
I don't often review children's books on this blog, but then again, there are few that use New York City history in such a spellbinding way…
Pope Francis arrives in New York City today -- part of his first-ever trip to the United States -- and the city is rolling out the…
One hundred years ago today, -- a horrifying disaster on Seventh Avenue endangered the lives of New Yorkers on their way to work. Excavations for the new…
A thousand unsolved mysteries live within a newspaper's archives, little forgotten events that have faded into history. Sometimes you can search deeper, and the answers to…
On Sunday The Bowery Boys join up with The Ensemblist to present a special cabaret event at 54 Below -- a tribute to the great St.…
In this blog roundup, a Bowery Boys appearance in Vice, a threat to preservation, a classic restaurant closes, the story of two hotels with very different…
Howard Philip Lovecraft -- aka H.P. Lovecraft -- was born 125 years ago today in Providence, Rhode Island. The pulp-fiction storyteller, known for claustrophobic tales of…
