12+ hour, 30+ min ago  (728+ words) Looking for a healthy assortment of fireworks to ignite for the Fourth of July holiday? In New York, from the late 19th century until the 1930s, one needed to look no further than one of the city's most heavily trafficked areas near…...

12+ hour, 32+ min ago  (409+ words) New York City will be at the center of celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the United States, thanks to the largest-ever flotilla of tall ships to sail into New York Harbor " a reminder of the city's storied maritime history. It…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (367+ words) In 1886, during a miles-long parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, office workers in lower Manhattan began heaving ticker tape out the windows, creating a magical, blizzard-like landscape. That tradition stuck. Today that particular corridor of Broadway " connecting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (490+ words) For a very brief period " likely just a single year " there was a female counterpart to the New York (Male) Giants. The New York Female Giants seem to have an unofficial" affiliation with the better known Giants, the city's most…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (371+ words) Oh, that Peter Stuyvesant. He was all about luxury, high class athletic sport and international travel. The Concorde! Monte Carlo! Caviar! Less than three centuries after the iconic Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam died at his palatial farm in today's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (713+ words) Above: the crowds at the Polo Ground for Game One. Many of these same people were certainly on hand for the fateful Game Four. The two cities had been in perpetual competition for most of their history; organized sport merely…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (350+ words) Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson 100 years ago on June 1, 1926. In late 1954, on the cusp of major Hollywood stardom, Marilyn moved to New York City on a quest to become a better actress and to find a little peace…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (196+ words) The Lincoln Center revival of'Ragtime" with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence Mc Nally, adapted from the novel by E. L. Doctorow " has just garnered 11 Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical, along…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (167+ words) In 1889, Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, became ensnared in a sensational web of deceit " forged identities, attempted murder, and brazen fraud that captured headlines across the country. Although this gripping saga played out over a two-year period, it…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (22+ words) Pride and Preservation: The West Village in the Modern Era " Jane Jacobs, Stonewall and Carrie Bradshaw'The Bowery Boys: New York City History -...