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It's like that: Rap pioneers and proud sons of QueensNAME THAT NEIGHBORHOOD Some New York neighborhoods are simply named for their location on a map (East Village, Midtown). Others are given prefabricated designations (SoHo, DUMBO). But a few retain names that link them intimately…
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ABOVE: These are the ladies who lunch in Prospect Park 1935 We talk about a lot of white men on the Bowery Boys podcast. When discussing…
ABOVE: These are the ladies who lunch in Prospect Park 1935 We talk about a lot of white men on the Bowery Boys podcast. When discussing…
Above: the crowded streets of Five Points, where the Forty Thieves first made mischief What does it mean to be the 'first' gang in New York?…
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every other Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from…
Above: New York by 1837 (in an painting by Edward Williams Clay) -- a city surviving financial ups and downs, fires and water shortage, riots, cholera…
We'd like to offer our condolences to the friends and family of Robert Guskind, the creator and wit behind Gowanus Lounge, one of the very best…
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every other Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from…
ABOVE: Park Avenue -- before the cars cameI've posted the extraordinary picture above of pre-1920s Park Avenue a couple times in the past, but I wanted…
Longacre Square -- the future Times Square -- after the Blizzard A March blizzard like the one today is discouraging as we're so close to ridding…
It's raining men at Starlight Park in the Bronx, circa 1921 (photo cleaned up and courtesy of Shorpy)For residents of the west Bronx, getting to Coney…
Some New York neighborhoods are simply named for their location on a map (East Village, Midtown). Others are given prefabricated designations (SoHo, DUMBO). But a few…
Patrick Henry McCarren -- best known today for leaving his last name to a park and a swimming pool -- was a complicated figure, so it…