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NYC music
fromVinePair
3 days ago

Good Vibes From a Bad Decade: A Look at NYC's '70s-Inspired Bars

1970s-style bars are trendy, but in New York City they uniquely celebrate the city's most troubled decade, creating a paradoxical nostalgia for a period of crime, corruption, and urban decay.
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fromNew York City, NY Patch
5 days ago

Augmented Reality Walking Tour Of Revolutionary-Era New York Will Launch This Summer

While Boston and Philadelphia often dominate the conversation about America's Revolution, New York was at the center of events surrounding Independence and the City's history is often overlooked. The war literally began and ended in the city, from the earliest major battle - the largest and most important of the war - to the British evacuation.
NYC real estate
History
fromPopular Mechanics
2 weeks ago

A 200-Year-Old House Concealed a Historic Secret-a Hidden Passageway on the Underground Railroad

An 1832 Manhattan house contains a previously unknown Underground Railroad passage built by abolitionist Joseph Brewster, now threatened by nearby development.
New York City
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

A three-volume history of New York City concludes with a final volume emphasizing wartime influences, global events, and rich archival detail reshaping the city's identity.
fromCurbed
2 months ago

39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now

My grandfather Sidney Lipsyte, the son of immigrants who became a New York City public-school teacher and administrator, lived from 1904 to 2005, a good run I don't expect to match. He witnessed, and sometimes experienced, a century of mayhem and invention: human flight, human spaceflight, pandemics, vaccines, economic devastation, Nazi conquest, atomic murder, peace treaties, civil rights, pacemakers, penicillin, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.
Photography
Pets
fromUntapped New York
4 months ago

Pandas in NYC, Oh My!

Pandas have a historic connection to New York City involving early discoveries, Roosevelt family expeditions, visiting pandas, and modern efforts to bring them back.
New York City
fromCity & State NY
4 months ago

Eric Adams isn't the first mayor to have a complicated love life

Multiple New York City mayors have had complicated personal relationships, including recent allegations about Eric Adams and historical affairs and turbulent marriages.
NYC LGBT
fromTheartnewspaper
9 months ago

One of New York City's oldest houses to open as its neighbourhood's first museum

The diversity of New York City's history includes significant contributions from its outer boroughs and the stories of communities.
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