When Rockefeller Criticized Lindsay, He Was Wrong
While talking about Attica with President Nixon, he seems to have gotten his facts wrong in criticizing New York's mayor and his way of dealing with angry inmates.
View ArticleIn Fast-Gentrifying Bed-Stuy, a Celebration of Early Black Settlers
A heritage center celebrates Weeksville, a 19th-century settlement in Brooklyn established by free blacks that was rediscovered only in 1968.
View ArticleA Print Shop Cranks Back Up, Ancient as Ever
At South Street Seaport, a old-fashioned printing house has returned to business after a hiatus, still using some of the same techniques Benjamin Franklin used.
View ArticleA Visit to Typhoid Mary's Domain
A tour of the place where perhaps the most famous typhoid patient lived out her years.
View ArticleOn the Streets, Discovering the Voice of the City
The work of Tony Schwartz, who spent much of his life chronicling the life of his city in sound, will be the subject of a retrospective on Wednesday.
View ArticleWay Back Machine: Long Before Cuomo, Slaying the Gerrymander
Long before Andrew M. Cuomo vetoed a redistricting plan, Gov. Alfred E. Smith cursed district lines that he said would "go around corners and up alleys to escape any portion of the population of...
View ArticleCrossing the Delaware, More Accurately
It is one of the most famous images in American history -- the painting depicting Washington crossing the Delaware River -- but it's not exactly attached to facts.
View ArticleCourt Grants Partial Access to Records of Anti-Communist Inquiry
New York's highest court grants a partial victory to a woman who has been seeking information about an anti-Communist campaign mounted by the city's Education Department decades ago.
View ArticleA History of Making Protest Messages Heard, Silently
A silent march planned for Sunday to protest the Police Department's stop-and-frisk tactic was inspired by a 1917 march.
View ArticleRecalling Childhoods Spent Romping Under the Statue of Liberty's Gaze
When Liberty Island was still known as Bedloes Island, a small group of families of service members stationed at Fort Wood lived in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.
View ArticleA Century and a Half Later, Paying Respect to 10 Soldiers
One hundred sixty-four years later, honoring veterans of one of America's lesser-known conflicts who are buried in Brooklyn.
View Article100 Years After a Murder, Questions About a Police Officer's Guilt
A New York City police officer was executed as a convicted murderer nearly 100 years ago, but questions about his innocence have long lingered.
View ArticleNew York Census Data, Centuries Old, Is Now Online
The New York State Archives and Library has collaborated with Ancestry.com to provide searchable versions of the 1940 United States census; New York State censuses from 1892, 1915 and 1925; and other...
View ArticlePapers of a Puerto Rican Poet Will Find a Home at Columbia
Jack Agüeros, an author and activist, will have his papers housed in an archive at Columbia, as part of the university's effort to become a vital source of historical research on Latinos in New York.
View Article100 Years After the Titanic, Still Wondering Who Got the Story
The answer to who got one of the biggest scoops of the early 20th century -- the interview with the surviving telegraph operator from the Titanic -- is murky.
View ArticleWhen Rockefeller Criticized Lindsay, He Was Wrong
While talking about Attica with President Nixon, he seems to have gotten his facts wrong in criticizing New York's mayor and his way of dealing with angry inmates.
View ArticleIn Fast-Gentrifying Bed-Stuy, a Celebration of Early Black Settlers
A heritage center celebrates Weeksville, a 19th-century settlement in Brooklyn established by free blacks that was rediscovered only in 1968.
View ArticleA Print Shop Cranks Back Up, Ancient as Ever
At South Street Seaport, a old-fashioned printing house has returned to business after a hiatus, still using some of the same techniques Benjamin Franklin used.
View ArticleA Visit to Typhoid Mary’s Domain
A tour of the place where perhaps the most famous typhoid patient lived out her years.
View ArticleOn the Streets, Discovering the Voice of the City
The work of Tony Schwartz, who spent much of his life chronicling the life of his city in sound, will be the subject of a retrospective on Wednesday.
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