Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… Bridge todays Greenpoint Avenue Bridge linking the Brooklyn and Queens portions of his empire Besides …   … When Catholics ran out of room to bury their dead in Manhattan they ferried them over to Blissville … By the … is a popular movie and television location Bruce Waynes parents and Spidermans Uncle Ben are buried there and it is …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… and students still meet there weekly for their critique sessions … 3 Gertrude offered the Met her art collection and …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM
Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released his … Harlem than anywhere else in America … In 1917 Harlem was home to the second largest population of Jews in America and … you were doing Gurock says that Central Harlem was the home of the hero of Abraham Kahans 1917 bestseller The Rise …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 25, 2017 - 8:59AM