Audrey Munson: The Most Visible New York Woman You Don’t Know
Audrey Munson may not sound like a familiar name, but she is present all across NYC as the model for many statues on famous monuments and institutions.
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The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: An Early New York Success Story – Sort of
Morris Jumel Mansion
She’s the woman who dueled with Aaron Burr and won. Move over Alexander Hamilton. The life of Eliza Jumel is a tale about a woman who came to New York to make good on the American Dream. Margaret Oppenheimer’s splendid book, The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: Marriage and …
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Briefly Seen New York Street Life: The Street Photography of Harvey Stein
NYC photographer Harvey Stein sees the city as his muse. Stein has photographed NYC for 50 years. Briefly Seen New York Street Life is his latest book.
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The Best Bathrooms at NYC’s Met Museum Are Next to an Ancient Chinese Urinal
An ancient Chinese male urinal gives only a sly hint to perhaps the cleanest, most underused bathroom in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for those in the know.
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Celebrating 30 Years of the Thornwillow Press at The Grolier Club NYC
Thornwillow Press, based in Newburgh, is turning 30 and the publishing world is celebrating. An exhibition is currently on display at the Grolier Club in NYC
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Fun Maps: Reconstructing New York City as Welikia, My Good Home
Dr. Eric Sanderson’s new Fun Map “Welikia” (Lenape for “my good home”) allows you to visualize what New York City’s five boroughs looked like in 1609.
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New Amsterdam’s Gay Scene: The Queer Case of Harmen van den Bogaert in Early NYC
Harmen van den Bogaert was the first death due to sexual preference in Dutch New Amsterdam and his harrowing escape and capture was recorded in a journal.
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The Strange Dining Companions at the Met Museum’s Petrie Court Café
If you have the chance to have lunch or grab a drink in the Petrie Court Café at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, take notice of the unique dining companions you’ll find amidst your elegant surroundings. Reaching the café through the Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court, you’ll pass by large-scale, nineteenth-century works of art that may seem at odds with the …
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A Mix of Patriot and Tory Influences in NYC’s Washington Heights
The Battle of Fort Washington, 1776, was a military defeat for the Patriots. But the battlefield site named after the last English Civil Governor of New York?
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Celebrating July 4th in NYC: Remembering the Stockbridge Indian Massacre in Van Cortlandt Park
Inn Indian Field Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was the Battle of Van Cortlandt Wood during the Revolutionary War where Stockbridge Mohicans lost their lives.
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