Tag: history

It has always been a truism throughout history that if you have money, life can be good. This doesnâ...

Read Part 1 of this story. By 1864, the detachable shirt collar and cuffs were making Troy, N.Y., o...

Read Part 2 of this story. The city of Troy was one of the wealthiest cities in the entire United S...

Work appears to have started up again at the landmarked Susan Elkins house at 1375 Dean Street, the ...

I walk just about everywhere, and take a lot of photos of what I see. One of the things I look for...

The dead in Queens outnumber the living, thanks to the Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847-8. After a se...

What do you call someone from Queens? There are Staten Islanders, Brooklynites, Manhattanites. Th...

The entire reason that an independent municipality called Long Island City was created in the firs...

So... Welcome to Newtown Creek, and specifically, Maspeth. Maspeth was the first European settlem...

Read Part 1 of this story. Last time we took a bit of a vacation from Brooklyn, and journeyed up ...