Uncover the history of NYC's iconic women-only hotel, The Barbizon, in a virtual book talk with author Paulina Bren!
Uncover the fascinating histories of place names in NYC with "Names of New York" author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro!
Rediscover Old New York through the sketches of 19th-century artist Eliza Greatorex, who preserved disappearing buildings with her art!
Explore the abandoned resorts of the Borscht Belt in NY's Catskill region with author and photographer Marisa Scheinfeld!
Discover the work of Eliza Greatorex, a pioneering 19th-century artist and preservationist who immortalized old New York in her sketches!
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Carole King’s groundbreaking 1971 album, Tapestry. To celebrate the occasion, author
Author Janice P. Nimura’s new book, The Doctors Blackwell tells the story of “How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to
On May 12, 1857, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children opened its doors to the sick and
Years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, jazz clubs were among the first places in Jim Crow America where
Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial