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Parks and RecreationMarch 11, 2015
Bowling Green, at the very tip of Manhattan island, is a small oval park so calm in comparison to its surroundings that it's hard to believe this is one of the oldest sections of the city of New York. Here are ten facts about Bowling…
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PODCAST REWIND The Plaza Hotel has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in New York City, a romantic throwback to the last days of the Gilded…
On the afternoon of October 13, 1914, a bomb exploded in the northwest corner of St. Patrick's Cathedral, sending deadly iron shrapnel flying through the room.…
Last night the Guides Association of New York City (GANYC) presented their first-ever GANYC Apple Awards at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater (part of Symphony Space),…
The announcement that Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois, would deliver an address in Cooper Institute, last evening, drew thither a large and enthusiastic assemblage. -- New…
Mulberry Street is one of the most important streets in New York City history, a central artery of immigrant life for almost two hundred years. Today its…
New York Fashion Week, the city's twice-yearly celebration of couture and runway, traces its roots to a 1943 press week event at the Plaza Hotel, organized…
Here is New York -- not the evened tree-lined avenues with fashionable ladies and shiny new carriages. Â Not an ordered town of impressive architecture and manicured…
On Tuesday, Mayor Bill De Blasio announced a broad expansion of New York ferry services beginning in 2017, taking commuters to various destinations along the East…
"The Raven" was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, and would come to define the morbid brilliance of its author…
This actually happened. For the debut of the new film Key Largo -- starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall -- the exhibitors at the Warner Strand…
As you can see, the Bowery Boys: New York City  History blog has gone through some major changes this week.  We have a new URL (boweryboyshistory.com)…
On January 6, 1915, a seemingly minor incident under the streets of Midtown caused a terrible panic, "the worst disaster in the history of the New…
