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[ Via the NYPL collection ] On Tuesday evening at 6, several NYPL volunteers will be conducting a oral history training session at the To...

From the Library of Congress Flickr page : 11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a di...

Last March 25, we wrote a post on the 98th anniversary of the Triangle Factory fire , which claimed nearly 150 lives... Once again this year...

At Flickr, rollingrck has a great set of old East Village postcards, including this undated shot of 10th Street and Avenue A... I tried to ...

Morning time sucker: Search millions of photographs from the Life magazine archives, from the 1750s to today, thanks to Google . Here are...

Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Charlie Parker, Sid Vicious and Edie Sedgwick have been among the many who have had a mental vacation at Bell...

Great post on Runnin' Scared at the Voice about those million-dollar condos coming to First Street and First Avenue . As Tony Ortega ...

Filmmaker/video editor Paul Dougherty shoots John J. McCroary's recollections of growing up on the Lower East Side while looking at the...

In honor of Veteran's Day, Inside the Apple provides a nice history lesson on the origins of York Avenue, named in 1928 for WWI hero Sg...

The Times has an obituary today  on Herbert Mitchell, 83. "At the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia, where he work...

A friend gave me a used copy of " The Lower East Side: A Guide to its Jewish Past " by Ronald Sanders. The book, published in 197...

The Village Voice unleashes its annual "best of NYC" issue this week. Check it out here. The issue features an essay from Tom Rob...

Thanks to Alex at Flaming Pablum for posting more of the photos from his NYC archives...including two of my favorites from the neighborhood...

Here's a revved-up version via Rocketboom : [Via AnimalNewYork ]

I enjoyed Off the Presses author Robert Simonson 's article in the Sun yesterday titled "Looking at New York's Liquid Past .&q...

MoMa is currently showing the exhibit Dalí: Painting and Film (through Monday). In conjuntion with that tonight and tomorrow, there's a...

That's the going rate for an iconic piece of Coney island history. Ten Astroland Park rides were posted for sale last week following the...

[ Window Shade Repairman, St. Marks Place, New York, 1938, by Joe Schwartz. Via Stephen Cohen Gallery ] I was just looking through the archi...

There's an obituary in the Times today on Ruth Greenglass, who passed away this past April. She was 84. (News of her death was only re...

"The Corner" is the iconic former home to JP Morgan & Co. at 23 Wall Street that sits across from the New York Stock Exchange ...