by Bob | Mar 4, 2023 | Hidden History
The first rail tracks on the lower west side of Manhattan were laid along 10th and 11th Avenues south from Penn Station. The problem was, this north-south rail line cut across all the east-west streets leading to the Hudson River waterfront, which was very active....
by Bob | Jan 9, 2023 | Books, Movies and TV shows, Hidden History
Mary Meyer and JFK I love writing fiction that finds amazing fact and “coincidences” of history and weaves them together into a thriller. These are facts: On the 25th of November, as Kennedy’s body lay in state at the Rotunda in Washington, Anastas Mikyoan,...
by Bob | Dec 23, 2022 | Hidden History
Volcano In 2019 the Whakaari Volcano erupted. Briefly. For just a couple of minutes. 22 people died. Tourists. Visiting an active volcano that had erupted twice in the last nine years. The documentary now on Netflix is a minute-by-minute account of what happened that...
by Bob | Dec 14, 2022 | Hidden History
A conference held on the southwestern tip of Staten Island, New York on 11 September 1776 A.D. in the Billop House, which still stands. This was the day Benjamin Franklin, Edward Rutledge and John Adams met Admiral Lord Howe to discuss the possibility of peace between...
by Bob | Oct 31, 2022 | Hidden History
I remember watching Led Zeppelin’s last concert in the current Garden from ‘Blue Heaven’. Also attending the Millrose Games when they were held at the venue. My sister had season tickets to the Knicks and suffered through the oh-so-close, but never there, Patrick...
by Bob | Oct 19, 2022 | Hidden History
If you fly into or out of LaGuardia, coming in or going out over the Bronx—which a plane seemed to do every two minutes while I was a kid as we were underneath the flight path—you can see Rikers Island quite close to the end of the runway. The Bronx is at the bottom...
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