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NYC Owes North Brooklyn A Park: At Stake, the Legitimacy of Its Land Use Process
This op-ed was originally published on janos.nyc, by Janos Marton who writes our Today in NYC History column. I
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Today in NYC History: The 1964 Murder of Kitty Genovese
On the evening of March 13, a young woman named Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered outside of her apartment building
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Today in NYC History: The Great Blizzard of 1888
Before you get too excited about spring being just around the corner, remember that from March 11 to March 14,
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Today in NYC History: That Time the Reverend Went to the Whorehouse at Madison Square
Gilsey House in the Tenderloin. Photo from Library of Congress. On March 11, 1892, an uptight minister named Charles Parkhurst
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Today in NYC History: Mohammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in "Fight of the Century"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE9S24kYDtA On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali battled Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden
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Today in NYC History: FDR's 1933 Bank Holiday During the Great Depression
“My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking…” The
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Today in NYC History: The U.S. Congress Meets for the First Time in 1789
Today’s U.S. Congress may be a bunch of hot-aired do-nothings, but the first session conducted under the U.
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Today in NYC History: In 1931, Cab Calloway releases "Minnie the Moocher" and Puts Harlem’s Big Band sound on the Map.
On March 3, 1931, Harlem big band leader Cab Calloway recorded “Minnie the Moocher,” the classic tale of chasing opium
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Today in NYC History: Abraham Lincoln Gives Game-Changing Speech at Cooper Union in 1860
Seven score and fifteen years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave what was then the biggest speech of his career, and he
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Today in NYC History: In 1985, NYC Battles Apartheid
Many know that South African apartheid was brought down in part by an aggressive international divestment campaign, but fewer know
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Today in NYC History: A 1643 Massacre of the Lenape Almost Dooms New Amsterdam
By the early 1640s, New Amsterdam had found its identity as a cosmopolitan trade capital, but it was almost wiped
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Today in NYC History: Rudy Guiliani Battles the Times Square Porn Shops in 1998
As we explored two weeks ago, the battle for Times Square was long and messy. On February 24, 1998, the