Tag: Historical

On a cold day in January 1892, a group of students at the elite Polytechnic Institute of Brookly...

(Postcard of Steeplechase Park's Pavilion of Fun, 1908) Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 of this ...

(Photo: westland.net. The "Tilly" - Steeplechase Park's famous logo. Read Part 1, Part 3 and Pa...

Read Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this story. After a visit to Coney Island this weekend, it ...

Bicycling was all the rage during the last decades of the 19th century, into the first decades o...

Bike lanes and the rights of the bicycle riding public are a hot topic, here in NY, in 2011. The...

Today The Eagle points to a Courier Life article that says the steeples on Sheepshead Bay's 142-year...

(The Methodist Hospital aka the Seney Hospital, in 1916) What do you do when there's a run on your...

(Harper's Weekly: The Panic of 1884 on Wall Street) George Ingraham Seney was an extremely success...

(The Seney Hospital, Now NY Methodist Hospital. None of these buildings remain.) George Ingraha...