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3 giorni fa · Roving haphazardly across 300-odd years of the city’s history, “Lost New York” makes the point that these places do not really vanish, but endure in maps, photographs, paintings, ephemera ...
4 giorni fa · Known early on as Long Acre (also spelled Longacre) Square, it had an unsavory reputation as the centre of illicit activity in the 1890s, though earlier in the 19th century it had been both a commercial and a residential area.
5 giorni fa · History of NYC Streets: Paradise Square. kelli trapnell. This 1827 oil painting by George Carlin depicts the chaos and debauchery that largely characterized the state of the Five Points. Image...
1 giorno fa · New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
2 giorni fa · The New York State Thruway system is a collection of six individual components across the state of New York that connect the state to four neighboring states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) as well as the Canadian province of Ontario.
2 giorni fa · Brent Staples writes editorials on politics and culture for the New York Times and is the recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He is the author of the essay “The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman,” published in the New York Times in February 2024. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Lost ...
4 giorni fa · Historical Sites: In October 1710 some 1200 Palatines established “East Camp” on the east bank of the Hudson after a long and arduous voyage from southwest Germany via Queen Anne’s England. It was the largest single migration in the colonial era.
