Hidden History: Lower Manhattan Walking Tour Saturday, April 21, from Noon-2pm Join James Nevius, author of Inside the Apple and Fo...

Should you find yourself in Washington Heights, stop by Fort Tryon Park (home to the Cloisters); today marks the 241st anniversary of t...

250 years ago, Lieutenant Bernard Ratzer set off across Manhattan and Brooklyn to make the first -- and still, in many ways, best -- comp...

courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Museum This past week marked the anniversary of the Great Fire of 1776, which broke out sometime ...

Join us on Friday, July 29, at 6:30pm at the New-York Historical Society  as we take you on a virtual walking tour of Alexander Hamilton...

Collection of the authors. On September 25, 1909, New York launched one of the largest and most ambitious festivals in its history, t...

Today is a holiday that's seldom celebrated in New York anymore: Evacuation Day, the commemoration of the end of the American Revolution...

As readers of our blog know , we like to think of America's birthday as not just taking place on a single day -- July 4th -- but over t...

Today marks the anniversary of the beginning of the end of American control of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War – the Great Fire of 17...

Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth's whirlwind trip to New York included a stop to cut a ribbon at the British Garden at Hanover Square in the ...

On Sunday, August 16, at 5:00 p.m., we are returning to Lower Manhattan for another free walking tour of downtown sites. The tour will focus...

Yesterday, Sewell Chan  blogged at the New York Times  about the 276th birthday of Bowling Green, New York's first park. (The post inclu...

As we approach the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center , it can be easy to forget that long before 9/11, t...