history

… month we shared the 25 best books about New York City history as picked by local authors and historians So many good … both those illustrating the 19thcentury Seaport and those showing the neighborhood in all its 1970s shabbinessa period … Watson conveys the social life of workingclass speakeasies rent parties and gay and lesbian nightlife as well as the …

… the New York history neophyte we asked 11 historians and authors to tell us their favorite books of New York history … most recently revised in 2010 showed up on three different experts lists Its organized by borough then by neighborhoods … in an historicalcultural context … Adrienne Onofri author of Walking Brooklyn and Walking Queens   … Its the …

… the city Landmarks Preservation Commission launched an updated version of the interactive map it first released in … silver prints mostly intimate portraits inside borough homes shot in the 1970s The collection is a thorough survey … be found in the full digital collection … 4 NYC Municipal Archives Collections … The mother of all historic photo …