On March 3, 1931, Harlem big band leader Cab Calloway recorded “Minnie the Moocher,” the classic tale of chasing opium that made Calloway a national star and put Harlem’s big band sound on the map.
During the late 1630s, New Netherland was being encroached on all sides. The Dutch-led Pavonia Massacre in turn sparked revenge by the Algonquin tribes.
On February 24, 1998, the Giuliani administration won a major legal battle when the NY Court of Appeals ruled that the City had legally re-zoned Times Square.
Abraham Lincoln and New York City will always be linked by Lincoln’s legendary speech at Cooper Union in 1860 (which we
When New York's all-black 369th Infantry Regiment set off to fight in World War I, they were men without rights. On February 17, 1919, they finally got a parade
Five Cents a Spot, photo by Jacob A. Riis. Image via Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Roger
On February 13, 1837, a crowd of 6,000, mostly poor Irish, gathered to hear a series of speeches denouncing the rich. What ensued was the NYC Flour Riot of 1837.
How would New York look if no one picked up the trash for nine days? New Yorker found the answer to that grisly question during a dramatic 1968 strike
Normally we don’t associate tugboats with disruption and chaos, but at a time when New York City’s shipping industry was king, the Tugboat Strike of 1946 threw the City into turmoil.
On February 10, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg issued a proclamation celebrating the legendary black basketball teams like The Harlem Rens aka the New York Renaissance.