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 | 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...
by Bob | Aug 26, 2022 | Hidden History
Freedomland Part of the history of the north-east Bronx, but more recently, was the short lived amusement park, Freedomland. It was a theme park built in 1960 in the northeast Bronx where Coop City now stands. My parents moved from a walk up in the South Bronx to a...
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