If you haven't yet had the chance, check out the exhibition at the main branch of the New York Public Library, " Picturing the C...

The Merchant's House Museum as it looked in the 1930s (with its original neighbors on either side); photo courtesy of HABS (Historic A...

James has a story that ran in Curbed NY yesterday detailing a walk around Lower Manhattan using a guidebook written in 1909. Initially...

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

Saint Nicholas (the patron saint of -- among other things -- sailors, repentant thieves, brewers, and pawnbrokers) was purportedly born o...

In honor of International Women's Day today, here's an update of a post we ran two years ago about Lillian Wald, the remarkable woma...

In 1868 -- one hundred and fifty years ago -- the department store James McCreery and Co. opened at the corner of Broadway and 11th Str...

Today marks the anniversary of the sinking of the USS  Maine , which went down in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, and sparked the ...

Tomorrow marks the 204th birthday of Samuel Jones Tilden, lawyer, governor of New York, and man who won the presidency in 1876 -- only to h...

These personal ads graced the front page, first column, of The New York Daily Herald on February 1, 1868 -- exactly 150 years ago today -...