A Civil Rights Tour of the UWS
Online via ZoomThe Upper West Side of Manhattan is filled with historic sites that help tell the stories of the past, both the struggles and achievements that got us to where we […]
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This is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby
Online via ZoomIn August 1967, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and the cast and crew of the film Rosemary’s Baby arrived in New York City for two weeks of location shooting. The famed […]
The Bloomingdale Asylum: A New Vision
Online via Zoom19th-century asylums are often portrayed as sinister, but the Bloomingdale Asylum in upper Manhattan was different. Architectural historian Dr. Nina Harkrader reconstructs the site and buildings that from 1815 to […]
Raising Titanic’s Big Piece: 25 Years Later
Online via ZoomThe sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. Lost for over a century, the Titanic’s wreck site was finally discovered […]
Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Lady Brokers
Online via ZoomIn 1868, a spirit’s guiding hand led two sisters to New York City, to a home on beautiful Washington Square--an address reserved for the elite of the Gilded Age. Behind […]
The Greatest 19th c. Photo of Morningside Heights
Online via ZoomOld photographs have captured many stages of the city’s growth that would otherwise have been lost, and the best images from New York’s past can do more than just highlight […]
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells
Online via ZoomA decade before Agatha Christie entered the scene, another female writer was already queen of the country house murder. Churning out multiple thrillers a year from her Upper West Side […]
Great Blizzard of 1888
Online via ZoomThe Great Blizzard of 1888 was among the first photographed natural disasters in the city’s history. Weather historian Rob Frydlewicz of the NYC Weather Archive blog uses some of the […]
All the Rage: The Hidden History of the Cycling City
Online via ZoomOver the course of history, countless vehicles have moved across our city. But it is the bicycle that has had the longest running claim to New York’s streets: 200 years […]
The New York Game
Online via ZoomHistorian Kevin Baker (a real major leaguer) returns to LW! with a look at America’s national pastime in the country’s largest city. Visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters—both the game and the city had them all. Baker introduces us to the motley/larger-than-life crew of New York hustlers, scalawags, and dreamers who made baseball such a popular and compelling game.