Visit the Map Room in Manhattan's Municipal Building
Explore rare maps of NYC housed in the Map Room of Manhattan's Municipal Building with Manhattan's official topographer, Hector Rivera!
Join the Lit Salon, a one-of-a-kind candlelit literary salon in a Brooklyn brownstone, for the launch of Ronald Drabkin's book about a WWI British hero turned spy for the Japanese in WWII
America’s third president Thomas Jefferson worked on his Virginia plantation home, Monticello, for 40 years, but this modernized replica
Over the years, New York City has aggregated quite a list of nicknames. Some are pretty self-explanatory — “The City that
Scaffolding, or sidewalk sheds, have become part of New York City’s personality. These structures are an essential tool that
Though you may not recognize her name today, Elizabeth Gloucester was “known by everyone in Brooklyn, New York, the state,
In October 2020, the two venerable institutions of the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) merged to
While New York is a city continually changing and evolving in almost every aspect, it’s hard to top the
The adorable anthropomorphic characters of Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle along with the serene woodsy worlds they
Believe it or not, the New York City subway system houses one of the world’s largest collections of public
Brooklyn (originally Breuekelen, in Dutch) was first settled in 1636 and incorporated as a city in 1843. Not long after
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