No band embodied the fun and grit of NYC better than the Ramones. On March 30, 1974, the band put on their first show in a small studio on East 20th Street.
New Yorkers have shown resilience amidst of adversity before, one example being their defiant rally against Nazism at Madison Square Garden on March 27, 1933
On March 26, 1967, over 10,000 congregated in Central Park for an Easter Sunday “Be In.” The event was the first of many in NYC during the “Summer of Love.”
On March 23, 2011 the 59th Street/Queensboro Bridge was renamed the Edward I. Koch Bridge a scene shown in the documentary, Koch, about the former NYC mayor.
In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, luxury condos are popping up. Yet 10 years after North Brooklyn was promised a 28-acre park its prospects seem as remote as ever
On the evening of March 13, a young woman named Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered outside of her apartment building
Don't get too excited about spring: remember that from March 11 to March 14, 1888, one of the most intense blizzards in American history buried NYC.
On March 11, 1892, an uptight minister named Charles Parkhurst visited the Gramercy-area brothel of Hattie Adams as part of an undercover sting
On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali battled Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in one of the most anticipated showdowns in sports history, the Fight of the Century
The United States was in the darkest of the Great Depression in 1933, when FDR declared a “Bank Holiday,” shutting down banking system for more than a week.