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NeighborhoodsOctober 22, 2013
A 1932 photo of 34-36 Barrow Street by Charles Von Urban, courtesy the Museum of the City of New York. Click here to see what this section of the street looks like today In this week's Ghost Stories of Old New York podcast, Tom…
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The former Atlantic Gardens, revealed during a demolition. Underneath it lies evidence of an even greater historical discovery. Courtesy Adam Woodward/Lower East Side History ProjectBig news…
Worth's Museum of Living Curiosities, one of New York's most popular dime museums, paired cheap 'curios' with vaudeville performances on the main stage. On December 29th,…
The Tree-Mark Shoe Store at 6-8 Delancey Street. You may know this building today as the Bowery Ballroom, a music venue since 1997. (Wurts Brothers, date unknown, both…
No amount of studying will prepare you for some of these odd questions. (A girl at Seward Library, photographed by Lewis Hine.)Trivia quizzes are very popular…
New York City, 1953, the setting for Kevin Baker's The Big Crowd. Photo by Eliot Elisofen, courtesy Life/Google imagesBOWERY BOYS BOOK OF THE MONTH Each month…
Mayor William Jay Gaynor's final appearance at City Hall was at a notification rally, declaring his independent candidacy. He brandishes a shovel as a symbol of…
New York City Hall and its brand new water fountain, in 1846, courtesy Currier and Ives (LOC)KNOW YOUR MAYORS A modest little series about some of the…
There once was a talking dog named Don.One hundred years ago today, he saved a man from drowning in Brighton Beach. Don shouted or barked the word…
KNOW YOUR MAYORS A modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City. Other entrants in the…
Photo above courtesy Drew Dies/Flickr He has a cool set of pictures from that day here.Today is the tenth-year anniversary of the Northeast Blackout of 2003 which shut…
Columbus Circle in 1921, looking west. Healy's was a few blocks north of this scene.Many of New York's most popular restaurants and cafes a century ago…
The used bookstores of Book Row, the above shot from Fourth Avenue and 10th Street, 1938 (courtesy NYPL)BOWERY BOYS BOOK OF THE MONTH Each month I'll…
