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September 4, 2012
A Welcome Debut: Our podcast this week was on the history of New York University, an institution which spent decades in the Bronx neighborhood today called University Heights. When they returned downtown to Greenwich Village, the campus passed into the hands of Bronx Community…
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"There are no lower outcasts in New York than the women who nightly creep out of the darkness and swarm the pavement of Bleecker Street..." L.…
A lady in a relatively normal skirt boards a Broadway streetcar in July 1913. Now imagine trying this in a hobble skirt! (Courtesy Library of Congress)…
Year-Round Brews: This calendar from 1895 celebrates the Harlem breweries of James Everard. An older Everard brewery building on W. 28th Street was converted into a Turkish…
The sky's the limit: Staten Island from the vantage of a hot air balloon, August 1906. (Courtesy LOC)"God might have made a more beautiful place than…
Above: Newsboys and bootblacks playing craps, photographed by Lewis Hines in 1912. Some of these were most likely recipients of free dental care, provided at the…
Today is the fifth birthday of this blog, which modestly began on July 4, 2007 and has grown more steadily out of control and independent of…
Behold the insanity: (Above) A lithograph of the Rockaway Beach Hotel, one of the most notorious failures in American historyA Song About Brooklyn: I gave you…
Above: Restaurant workers walk off the job at Sherry's Restaurant at Fifth Avenue in 1912One hundred years ago today, a rather peculiar worker's strike ended, a…
Maneater: Theda Bara in an unconventional portrait. Her publicist claimed it was her lover and that 'not even the grave could separate them'."A vampire is a…
'Red' Leary was one of the famous bank robbers of the 1870s, assisting in heists all along the Northeast. Above is an illustration of a bank…
And so our little history podcast experiences a little bit of a historical milestone itself.Five years ago today, Tom Meyers and I sat down to record…
Modern Mechanix celebrates an exciting new use for electricity! (Courtesy the great Modern Mechanix blog) WARNING The article contains a couple spoilers about last night's 'Mad…
