by Bob | Mar 12, 2023 | Hidden History
Son of Sam On July 29, 1976, serial killer David Berkowitz – who would become known as the Son of Sam – committed the first of his murders in New York City. I remember these events because that was my senior year of high school and the first shooting occurred just...
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 | 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 23, 2022 | Books, Movies and TV shows
Governors Island New York City was not where the first Europeans settled in the area. They bypassed it. Maybe they knew something? The reality is that the area was heavily populated by Native Americans. Oyster beds in the harbor, long since destroyed, were bountiful...
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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