Friday, December 31, 2021

Junk Jewelry

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 Manhattan Island was bought for $24 dollars worth of junk jewelry. Or so we're told. But first of all, $24 went a lot further back then...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Cozy Studio

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In New York City, Real Estate is an emotion more powerful than Love - ask any number of pitiful split-up couples who are still living toget...

Radio Schizo

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The year was 1939, and radio was hot, hot, hot! It burned up years of Vaudeville material in a matter of weeks, forcing the industry t...
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East Side Story

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Near the end of the last century it was common for formerly isolated ethnic groups to come into contact with each other. Usually, they reali...

Speaker's Corner

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Union Square is now renowned for its Greenmarket and the subway station with the prerecorded paternoster: "Attention all passengers! Pl...

The Gay Nineties

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For many long years, the Tammany Tiger held sway over the growing city's vast coffers of public funds and patronage jobs. And much of ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

19th Century Spy System

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If you look near the tops of some of the older surviving buildings downtown, you might still see cast iron brackets with pieces of mirrors ...

A Day Lost To History

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Saturday, May 17th, 1913. Easy to write, but just try to look it up. You'll find nothing. In fact, even the papers on the 18th are might...

Ghost Club

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The next time you're in the 190th street A train's elevator - if you're alone and have some time to kill and have a flashligh...

Higher Education

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New York City has a rather notorious educational system. On one hand are the daily tales of student disorder, overcrowded classrooms, teache...

What Hath God Wrought?

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New York in the 1870s was a bustling beehive of activity - much of it fueled by the communications revolution of the telegraph. Railroad, sh...
Monday, February 05, 2007

When Beer was King

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In the late 19th century, America, and to a greater extent, New York City, was a beer drinking nation. Beer was safer than the water of the...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Chester

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Before such conveniences as the Second Avenue Elevated, New York was laced with trolley lines - trolleys drawn by strong teams of horses...
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