From page of New York World June 15, 1904 ( New York World) Remembering the General Slocum Disaster 120 Years Later If one were to make a 1970s-style disaster movie about old New York, the 1904 burning of the ferry boat PS General Slocum... Voices 30 Jul 2024 | 07:16
A view of Manhattan in 1855, looking southward from the Latting Observatory on 42nd Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, with the Crystal Palace and the original Croton Reservoir in the foreground. Photo: Untitled View of Manhattan looking south from the Latting Observatory); New-York Historical Society, Gift of Cooley LLP. Image © Richard Haas Lost New York Exhibit Reaches Back in Time to Illuminate the Present Time travel back to a New York just recently past—or to a long-ago past, when the horse-drawn omnibus served as public transport... News 20 Jun 2024 | 04:12
The Spanish Benevolent Society building. Photo: Zoey Lyttle La Nacional: The Spanish Benevolent Society Lives On The nonprofit society La Nacional opened on 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in 1868, but when the Church of... News 17 Aug 2022 | 03:02
From the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group website. Photo courtesy of BNHG The Old Bloomingdale Neighborhood “Enthusiastic, energetic amateur historians.” That’s how Vita Wallace described herself and her fellow members of the Bloomingdale... News 12 Aug 2022 | 09:50
Leo Moss (d. 1936), Doll with tears. Macon, GA, ca. 1922. “Mabel Lincoln 1922” handwritten on label sewn totorso. Manufactured body, cotton, papier-mâché, glass. Collection of Deborah Neff. Photo: Ellen McDermott Photography What’s in a Doll? Nearly three years in the making, “Black Dolls” at the New-York Historical Society is child’s play and so much more. Drawn... City Arts 04 Apr 2022 | 10:50
“The goal of the project is to broaden people’s knowledge of the city’s LGBT history.” Clockwise rom lower left: Amanda Davis, Jeffry Iovannone, moderator Larry Francer and Jeffrey “Free” Harris. Historians and Preservationists Convene to Discuss LGBTQ+ Landmarks During Pride Month The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, a local nonprofit advocating for recognition of historic buildings with queer pasts,... News 18 Jun 2021 | 05:43
Daniel Garodnick at a book signing event at Stuyvesant Town last week. Photo via Dan Garodnick’s Twitter Garodnick’s Saga of Urban Change New York will be a great place, an observant New Yorker once said, if they ever get it finished. Daniel R. Garodnick, president... News 25 Apr 2021 | 03:48
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Photo: National Photo Collection at the Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons When It Was Worse Sunday, August 11, 1918, in New York was fair and relatively cool. As the Norwegian ship Bergensfjord sailed into New York... News 01 Feb 2021 | 03:36
The personal studio apartment in Sixty-Seventh Street Studios of artist Henry Ranger, who co-planned the building. Photo: Architectural Record Revisiting the History of the West 67th Street Artists’ Colony Landmark West! — a nonprofit that advocates for the preservation of Upper West Side buildings and districts as landmarks... News 23 Jan 2021 | 05:00
Women’s Rights Pioneers statue in Central Park. Photo: Oscar Kim Bauman The Politics of Monuments In June 2018, First Lady Chirlane McCray announced the She Built NYC project. The project, backed by the city’s Department... News 13 Oct 2020 | 02:20
Alisa Martin is the vice president of education operations for the Tenement Museum. Photo: Jamiya Wilson, courtesy of the Tenement Museum Looking into the Lives of the City’s Past When the founders of the Tenement Museum were searching the Lower East Side for a place to honor the lives of the immigrants... News 06 Sep 2020 | 12:56
Architectural historian Francis Morrone. ( Photo: Patricia Rainsford) Changing the Way We Look at the City’s Architecture Francis Morrone has written the book on New York architecture, literally. Having penned 13 titles such as “The Architectural... News 05 Jul 2020 | 05:59
Sign marking Lamartine place as a historical site. ( Photo: Benjamin Morse) Race and History in Chelsea After the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, Americans began to grapple anew with racism and... News 01 Jul 2020 | 04:23
Zoom panel on the lessons of AIDS for the COVID-19 pandemic. ( Photo courtesy of Roosevelt House) COVID and AIDS: An Intimate Connection While New York City starts to come to grips with its deep social and systemic disparities over weeks of protests and outcry,... News 11 Jun 2020 | 12:49
The museum collection includes 3,700 items, a mix of authentic KGB artifacts and replicas. Dark History on Display The world’s only KGB Espionage museum greets visitors with a “Lifestyles of the Communist and Fabulous” scene: a KGB officers’... City Arts 14 Nov 2019 | 02:28
