Was This Hidden Closet Part of the Underground Railroad in Brooklyn?
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With a history as long and storied as New York City’s, there are bound to be twisted tales and
New York City may not be as old as some of the cities in Europe where catacombs and crypts have
Author Patrick Bringley worked for a decade as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET). Early next year,
New York City is bursting with colorful displays of public art: the Metronome in Union Square, the Prometheus sculpture in
Midwood is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn to the south of Flatbush and east of Bensonhurst. As one of the
With its many celebrated restaurants and food festivals, Brooklyn can stake a serious claim to being New York City’s
The Paterno family monogrammed most of the apartment houses they built with treasured Manhattan architects Gaetan Ajello and Rosario Candela.
Exhibiting the transition between colonial graveyards and large garden-style cemeteries like Green-Wood Cemetery, the Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery has
Green-Wood Cemetery was the second most popular tourist site in New York state by 1860, with over 500,000 visitors
Staten Island may be New York City’s least populated borough, but it is still home to plenty of eerie
In New York City, there are streets named after musicians, astronauts, and even board games. The names of the city
From the origin of the American hot dog in Coney Island to the invention of the Bloody Mary at Manhattan’
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