The New Yorker turns 100: Here’s how it started with a poker game
To start The New Yorker, Ross’ poker partner Fleischmann was willing to stake him US$25,000—roughly $450,000 in today’s ...
Museum exhibit focuses on 100 songs about NYC from Sinatra to Lil’ Kim, and everything in between
The Museum of the City of New York’s “Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music” opens Friday, ...
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Wyoming History: Valentine’s Day Used To Be As Much For Haters As Lovers
In the 1800s and early 1900s in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Valentine’s Day was not just for lovers, it was also for haters and just ...
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A scandalous 19th-century love story ended in a CT loophole wedding, just hours after NY divorce
Two of the most prominent members of 19th century high society managed to combine romance and scandal in a one-day trip to a ...
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Relive monumental public art installation ‘The Gates’ in Central Park, 20 years later
"The Gates," the public art installation that took over Central Park with saffron-colored fabric panels for 16 days in 2005, ...
One of the last remaining Gilded Age mansions in New York City is for sale for $49.9 million. Take a look inside.
The 16,000-square-foot mansion built during the Gilded Age on New York's luxe Fifth Avenue is on the market for $49.9 million ...
When York County built a home for children, poor people and those with disabilities
The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...
The Housing Crisis Forces Change on a Low-Rise Pocket of Brooklyn
A contentious plan to build two 10-story towers illustrates how a pressing shortage of affordable apartments has started to ...
Inside a Connecticut 'iceberg home' with a secret tunnel to a ‘bat cave’
The term “iceberg home” describes houses with elaborate lower levels like the Kansas City home of Chiefs player Travis Kelce.
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How To Make 19th Century Baked Oysters | Tasting History
During the height of the oyster craze in New York in the 1800s, everyone was eating them at oyster saloons, oyster stalls, and at home. This recipe from 1880 is one of the many, many ways that people ...