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...
by Bob | Oct 18, 2022 | Hidden History
Hamilton Grave I tracked down his grave while doing research for a book, The Jefferson Allegiance, which has as the premise that Hamilton and Jefferson brokered a secret agreement to stop an imperial Presidency that they felt wasn’t covered under the power of the...
by Bob | Sep 27, 2022 | Hidden History
New York Little Black Book NEW YORK CITY’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK Today is publication day! It’s in Kindle Unlimited so feel free to thumb through and check out all this interesting stuff about the city. To give you an idea of what’s in it, below are...
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