courtesy of the New York Public Library Last night, we saw a terrific production of The Black Crook  at the Abrons Arts Center on the L...

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

On Sunday, October 9, at 10:00 a.m. join us for a walk in and around Central Park as we celebrate Columbus Day and ask the question: Wh...

As we've noted on this blog before, there is a disagreement among historians about when Henry Hudson arrived in New York Harbor and firs...

If you've ever taken our tour of Union Square and environs , you may be familiar with the above picture. It depicts the very first La...

America's National Park Service is turning 100 years old today. Did you know that there are twenty-two National Parks in the state o...

courtesy of the Library of Congress On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women th...

Fifty years ago last week, the ground was broken for the World Trade Center. (You can see what the area looked like as construction be...

First of all -- thank you to everyone who turned out for our talk, " Exploring Hamilton's New York,"  at the New-York His...

Earlier this summer, James took to the streets with a handful of guidebooks written in the 19th century to see if he could reconstruct a...