Thursday, May 9th 7:00-8:00pm FREE! At Shakespeare & Co. on Broadway The first NYC tenements, which appear by the 1820s, were mostly ramshackle, austere buildings, barely able to contain the thousands of new immigrants arriving daily. By 1885, however, something...
“Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles” A LW! Author’s Talk with Fran Leadon Wednesday, October 24th, 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th Street Partner-level Members Get 2-for-1 Tickets! Broadway, as locals all know, is much more than just the few blinding...
“We Are Staying”: Author Jen Rubin in conversation with Amy Harmon of the New York Times Monday, October 15th 6:30pm-7:45pm For eighty years, Radio Clinic (R.C.I.), a family-owned and run appliance and electronics shop, was a fixture on the corner of 98th Street and...
When John Tauranac is not busy designing maps, he turns his talents to writing intriguingly on the city’s social and architectural history. In his latest book, “Manhattan’s Little Secrets,” Tauranac leads us on a fascinating hunt for the overlooked and under-seen...
An aspiring young model arrives in NYC and meets a wealthy, influential man three times her age. He initially plays the role of benefactor, then lures her to his apartment, drugs her, and all goes dark… She goes on to marry an (unstable) millionaire playboy,...
