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… says he usually gets started by looking through newspaper archives   The New York Times and the  Brooklyn Daily Eagle have extensive online archives going back to 1851 and 1841 respectively the Eagle archive link is currently broken but perhaps this can be …

… When Brian Hartig and his husband first bought a brownstone in BedStuy and set … all into a book at the end of the process  Clients tell me what they want to know and I get to follow the cluesWeve … teaches a course on NYC building research each year at the Municipal Art Society his next is scheduled for September It …

… with securing liberty for more than 600 former slaves the LPC plaque ups the number to 1000 Ruggless brand of … of slavery and provide slaves with a safehaven and the NYC Draft Riots of 1863 the Landmarks Preservation … chronicling the history of the Underground Railroad in NYC Since Chatels death in 2014 her daughter Shawne Lee has …

… had streets named for Hilter Goering and Goebbelshas been ordered by the New York attorney general to stop its racist … Long Island is not alone in its discriminatory housing history In New York redlining is a racist depressionera …   … Escape … history … Long Island town with Nazi origins ordered to stop racist homebuying policies …