by Bob | Jun 15, 2023 | Hidden History
A single event can have strange historical ripples. In 1702 a yellow fever epidemic wiped out 10% of the population in less than three months. This was five hundred people out of a population of five thousand.
The city attempted to deal with recurrent outbreaks by...
by Bob | Jun 14, 2023 | Hidden History
The streets of Southern Manhattan, including areas like the Financial District and the Village, are seen as disorganized or chaotic compared to the rest of Manhattan due to the way the city was developed historically. Most of Manhattan is in a grid that easily...
by Bob | Apr 15, 2023 | Hidden History
Who Are Patience and Fortitude? My two favorite lions guard the front entrance of the main branch of the New York Public Library. Long before the Internet (actually the first Internet message was sent in 1969, a free slideshow about that is on my slideshow page)...
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....
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