#nychistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nychistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Most visitors to Ellis Island never make it to the abandoned hospital complex on the southern end, but it holds some of the island's most remarkable history. Did you know the word "moron" was coined there? Or that around 350 babies were born on the island? Untapped New York rounds up 10 surprising facts from the Hard Hat Tour of this extraordinary site.
#NYCHistory #EllisIsland #Immigration #NYCTours #History
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For decades, the accepted story of Annie Moore, the first immigrant through Ellis Island on New Year's Day 1892, held that she moved to Texas, ran a hotel, and died in a streetcar accident. It was entirely wrong. Years of research by professional genealogist Megan Smolenyak uncovered the truth. Untapped New York tells the full story.
#NYCHistory #EllisIsland #IrishHistory #ImmigrationHistory #NYC
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From Harriet Tubman in Harlem to Mother Cabrini at The Battery, New York City's monuments dedicated to real women tell stories of courage, reform, and resilience. Untapped New York has gathered 10 of them in one essential guide, including some you may not have known existed. A worthwhile read for anyone who loves this city's history.
#NYCHistory #PublicArt #WomensHistory #NewYorkCity #UrbanHistory
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-monuments-dedicated-to-real-women-with-more-to-come/?ref=daily-newsletter -
From Harriet Tubman in Harlem to Mother Cabrini at The Battery, New York City's monuments dedicated to real women tell stories of courage, reform, and resilience. Untapped New York has gathered 10 of them in one essential guide, including some you may not have known existed. A worthwhile read for anyone who loves this city's history.
#NYCHistory #PublicArt #WomensHistory #NewYorkCity #UrbanHistory
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-monuments-dedicated-to-real-women-with-more-to-come/?ref=daily-newsletter -
From Harriet Tubman in Harlem to Mother Cabrini at The Battery, New York City's monuments dedicated to real women tell stories of courage, reform, and resilience. Untapped New York has gathered 10 of them in one essential guide, including some you may not have known existed. A worthwhile read for anyone who loves this city's history.
#NYCHistory #PublicArt #WomensHistory #NewYorkCity #UrbanHistory
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-monuments-dedicated-to-real-women-with-more-to-come/?ref=daily-newsletter -
From Harriet Tubman in Harlem to Mother Cabrini at The Battery, New York City's monuments dedicated to real women tell stories of courage, reform, and resilience. Untapped New York has gathered 10 of them in one essential guide, including some you may not have known existed. A worthwhile read for anyone who loves this city's history.
#NYCHistory #PublicArt #WomensHistory #NewYorkCity #UrbanHistory
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-monuments-dedicated-to-real-women-with-more-to-come/?ref=daily-newsletter -
From Harriet Tubman in Harlem to Mother Cabrini at The Battery, New York City's monuments dedicated to real women tell stories of courage, reform, and resilience. Untapped New York has gathered 10 of them in one essential guide, including some you may not have known existed. A worthwhile read for anyone who loves this city's history.
#NYCHistory #PublicArt #WomensHistory #NewYorkCity #UrbanHistory
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-monuments-dedicated-to-real-women-with-more-to-come/?ref=daily-newsletter -
The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses
I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City's Bronx Zoo welcomed three platypuses in 1947 and three more in 1958 after the last of the three 1947 platypuses passed away (it previously had a platypus in 1922). All three of the 1958 platypuses died within a year of arriving in the Bronx Zoo, which seems to have caused the Bronx Zoo to give up on […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-former-bronx-zoo-platypuses-04-04-26/
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City Beautiful Blog takes a look at Chelsea — one of Manhattan's most layered neighborhoods. The Oreo was invented in what is now Chelsea Market. The Hotel Chelsea sheltered Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen. The land under London Terrace once belonged to the author of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. And the High Line transformed an abandoned freight rail line into one of the city's most celebrated parks.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #LocalHistory #UrbanDesign
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Julia Vitullo-Martin of Untapped New York covers the Robert Rauschenberg centennial exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York — a show that is as much about the downtown Manhattan world Rauschenberg inhabited as it is about the artist himself. Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Trisha Brown — the people who shaped his work and his city are all here. Open through April 19, 2026.
#NYCHistory #ArtHistory #NYC #RobertRauschenberg #ArtsAndCulture
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City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
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City Beautiful Blog takes a close look at the animal imagery inside St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue. The symbolism runs deep. From the pelican piercing its own breast to the unicorn as an allegory for the Incarnation, each creature carries a theological message rooted in medieval bestiaries. A thoughtful piece for anyone drawn to the intersection of art, architecture, and history.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #ArtHistory #MedievalHistory #Symbolism
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The Waldorf Astoria began as a calculated social insult. William Waldorf Astor built a luxury hotel next to his aunt's mansion just to annoy her. City Beautiful Blog traces the full story, from that Gilded Age family feud to FDR's secret railway platform beneath the Park Avenue building. A well-told piece of New York history.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #NewYork #LocalHistory
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City Beautiful Blog has put together a guide to NYC's most beautiful restaurant interiors, and the history behind each space is as compelling as the design. A railroad tycoon's pantsless office inside Grand Central. The sheepfold that became Tavern on the Green. Aaron Burr's carriage house in the West Village. Fraunces Tavern, where Washington said farewell to his officers. Worth reading slowly.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #LocalHistory #HistoricPreservation
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The Domino Sugar sign, originally from the 1920s, was rebuilt as a replica for Brooklyn's waterfront. Radio City Music Hall's 1932 neon is synonymous with the city itself. The Pepsi-Cola sign, rescued from a shuttered bottling plant, now stands in Gantry Plaza as a designated NYC landmark. Meanwhile, the beloved Kentile Floors sign was saved and will be reinstalled in Gowanus, preserving Brooklyn's industrial heritage.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #IndustrialHeritage
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Rugelach arrived in NYC with Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in the late 1800s, appearing at bakeries across the Lower East Side, Upper West Side, and Brooklyn. Jewish bakeries became community staples, serving dairy products and opening six days a week to keep kosher.
#NYCHistory #JewishHistory #FoodHistory #Rugelach
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The northernmost building on Broadway in Manhattan is a C-Town supermarket at 5249 Broadway in Marble Hill—and it's geographically located in the Bronx. In the late 1800s, the Army Corps of Engineers cut through this section of Manhattan to create a faster shipping route, turning Marble Hill into an island. Today it has Manhattan jurisdiction but Bronx zip codes and services.
#NYCHistory #Broadway #MarbleHill #UrbanPlanning
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When William K. Vanderbilt's $30,000 offer for an opera box was rejected by Mrs. Astor's crowd at the Academy of Music, the snubbed industrialists built their own opera house. The Met opened in 1880 with superior acoustics and 36 private boxes—and the Academy of Music couldn't compete. Today's Lincoln Center home continues that legacy of grandeur.
#NYCHistory #MetropolitanOpera #GildedAge #Opera #LincolnCenter #Architecture
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Untapped Cities examines a vintage sign from the closed City Hall subway station, New York's most architecturally significant abandoned transit space. A glimpse into a hidden landmark that most New Yorkers never see.
#NYCSubway #CityHallStation #NYCHistory #TransitHistory #AbandonedPlaces #VintageSigns #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities examines a vintage sign from the closed City Hall subway station, New York's most architecturally significant abandoned transit space. A glimpse into a hidden landmark that most New Yorkers never see.
#NYCSubway #CityHallStation #NYCHistory #TransitHistory #AbandonedPlaces #VintageSigns #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities explores the hidden symbols embedded in the Woolworth Building's magnificent ceilings. A fascinating deep dive into architectural storytelling and the details most visitors never notice.
#WoolworthBuilding #NYCArchitecture #BeauxArts #ArchitecturalHistory #NYCHistory #HiddenDetails #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities explores the hidden symbols embedded in the Woolworth Building's magnificent ceilings. A fascinating deep dive into architectural storytelling and the details most visitors never notice.
#WoolworthBuilding #NYCArchitecture #BeauxArts #ArchitecturalHistory #NYCHistory #HiddenDetails #UntappedCities
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City Beautiful blog presents a comprehensive look at Italian contributions to New York's public monuments. The article examines statues of Italian figures like Columbus, Garibaldi, and Verdi, as well as monuments created by Italian and Italian American sculptors and artists.
#NYCHistory #ItalianAmerican #PublicArt #Monuments #ImmigrationHistory #UrbanHistory #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog presents a comprehensive look at Italian contributions to New York's public monuments. The article examines statues of Italian figures like Columbus, Garibaldi, and Verdi, as well as monuments created by Italian and Italian American sculptors and artists.
#NYCHistory #ItalianAmerican #PublicArt #Monuments #ImmigrationHistory #UrbanHistory #CityBeautiful
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Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
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Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
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City Beautiful blog examines the Time mural at Rockefeller Center by Spanish artist Jose Maria Sert which replaced Diego Rivera's destroyed "Man at the Crossroads." The piece analyzes how the Sert mural reflects different political and artistic values, offering insights into art, patronage, and ideological conflicts in 1930s America.
#RockefellerCenter #ArtHistory #PublicArt #Murals #NYCHistory #DiegoRivera #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog delivers an in-depth look at the American Museum of Natural History's architectural evolution, tracing the museum's development from its founding vision through multiple expansions and additions. A compelling exploration of how museums grow and adapt over time while maintaining their core identity and purpose.
#AMNH #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Museums #NYCHistory #MuseumArchitecture #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog delivers an in-depth look at the American Museum of Natural History's architectural evolution, tracing the museum's development from its founding vision through multiple expansions and additions. A compelling exploration of how museums grow and adapt over time while maintaining their core identity and purpose.
#AMNH #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Museums #NYCHistory #MuseumArchitecture #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog delivers an in-depth look at the American Museum of Natural History's architectural evolution, tracing the museum's development from its founding vision through multiple expansions and additions. A compelling exploration of how museums grow and adapt over time while maintaining their core identity and purpose.
#AMNH #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Museums #NYCHistory #MuseumArchitecture #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog delivers an in-depth look at the American Museum of Natural History's architectural evolution, tracing the museum's development from its founding vision through multiple expansions and additions. A compelling exploration of how museums grow and adapt over time while maintaining their core identity and purpose.
#AMNH #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Museums #NYCHistory #MuseumArchitecture #CityBeautiful
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City Beautiful blog delivers an in-depth look at the American Museum of Natural History's architectural evolution, tracing the museum's development from its founding vision through multiple expansions and additions. A compelling exploration of how museums grow and adapt over time while maintaining their core identity and purpose.
#AMNH #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Museums #NYCHistory #MuseumArchitecture #CityBeautiful
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Untapped Cities examines Evacuation Day, a once-major New York City holiday that commemorated the British departure on November 25, 1783. The article explores how this significant Revolutionary War milestone gradually faded from public memory and what it reveals about how cities choose which historical moments to remember and celebrate.
#NYCHistory #RevolutionaryWar #EvacuationDay #AmericanHistory #HistoricalMemory #NewYork
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City Beautiful blog presents an architectural and urban planning analysis of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It explores the vision behind creating a unified cultural campus, the architectural decisions that shaped its distinctive modernist aesthetic, and the complex legacy of urban renewal.
#LincolnCenter #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #PerformingArts #NYCHistory #UrbanRenewal #CityBeautiful
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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/happy-new-york-evacuation-day-2025/
November 25 marks New York’s Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? I humbly cite to me:
New York’s Evacuation Day, not to be confused with Massachusetts’ Evacuation Day, is a former New York annual holiday that fell on November 25. It marked the organized November 25, 1783 British evacuation of New York City, which coincided with General George Washington leading American troops to Fort George to complete the transfer of power.
Nicholas A. Ferrell
Learn more in my 2023 article on Evacuation Day. If you happen to be into karaoke, you can impress your friends or colleagues with your rendition of an olden Evacuation Day song.
#evacuationDay #nycHistory #thisDayInHistory #uSRevolutionaryWar #usHistory
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Think you know Grand Central Terminal? Most New Yorkers rush through without noticing the hidden whispering gallery, secret basement tracks, or the astronomical error on the famous ceiling. These architectural secrets reveal why this isn't just a train station, it's a living museum of NYC history and design ingenuity.
#GrandCentral #NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #UrbanExploration #NewYork #Design
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Think you know Grand Central Terminal? Most New Yorkers rush through without noticing the hidden whispering gallery, secret basement tracks, or the astronomical error on the famous ceiling. These architectural secrets reveal why this isn't just a train station, it's a living museum of NYC history and design ingenuity.
#GrandCentral #NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #UrbanExploration #NewYork #Design
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Think you know Grand Central Terminal? Most New Yorkers rush through without noticing the hidden whispering gallery, secret basement tracks, or the astronomical error on the famous ceiling. These architectural secrets reveal why this isn't just a train station, it's a living museum of NYC history and design ingenuity.
#GrandCentral #NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #UrbanExploration #NewYork #Design
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Think you know Grand Central Terminal? Most New Yorkers rush through without noticing the hidden whispering gallery, secret basement tracks, or the astronomical error on the famous ceiling. These architectural secrets reveal why this isn't just a train station, it's a living museum of NYC history and design ingenuity.
#GrandCentral #NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #UrbanExploration #NewYork #Design
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Think you know Grand Central Terminal? Most New Yorkers rush through without noticing the hidden whispering gallery, secret basement tracks, or the astronomical error on the famous ceiling. These architectural secrets reveal why this isn't just a train station, it's a living museum of NYC history and design ingenuity.
#GrandCentral #NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #UrbanExploration #NewYork #Design
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Edgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction, perfected the short story, and wrote "The Raven" in New York City. He walked through Greenwich Village cemeteries with Virginia, finished his only novel on Waverly Place, and spent his final years in a Fordham cottage watching his young wife die of tuberculosis. New York gave him both his greatest triumph and his deepest sorrow.
#Literature #NYCHistory #GothicFiction
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Ever wonder what Central Park was like before it was a park? This video is excellent. #nyc #history #senecaVillage #nycHistory #centralPark #aquaduct
(I like how this video ends with "and people keep saying there are secret tunnels IDK..." LMAO Don't let the dream die.)
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Did you know Labor Day was created in New York City? In 1882, 10,000 workers marched down Broadway in the first Labor Day parade, demanding better working conditions and fair wages.
This wasn't just a parade, but the birth of a movement that would become a national holiday. NYC's labor organizers literally created the template for workers' rights celebrations across America.
#LaborDay #NYCHistory #WorkersRights #LaborMovement #AmericanHistory #NYC #SocialJustice
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory