The noble brown shell housing tourists today hints but slightly at its glory days as the grand performance hall Castle Garden, as New York’s pre-Ellis Island immigrant station, and, as a home for penguins and seals, the New York aquarium. Although not a shot was fired at the elderly for...
Drafted by University of Chicago and Chicago Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council (MHPC) leaders to provide federal funding for their local urban renewal projects Source: Beryl Satter, "Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America", 2009, pp50-51. Tags:...
Patrick, the NYC nightclub owner living a double life as a drug lord, in the 50 Cent-produced "Power" (Starz, 2014-), but continued to grace the big screen with roles in ex-con drama "Chapter and Verse" (2015) and crime thriller "Shot Caller" (2016). Credits (Film): Kick-Ass...
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1938 NYC – Masterful Mabel Dwight MABEL DWIGHT, 1938 Leave it to Mabel Dwight for a humorous and original take,Backyard, 1938 WPA/FAP lithograph. Below – New York City images (collection, NYPL) for comparison of the flip view. More photographs featured in Excerpt 2. ...
s history. Doing additional research on the interconnectedness of NYC’s historic landmarks allows a fuller story and makes our city’s diverse history more accessible, and this story map follows a number of previous interactivestory mapsproduced by LPC that are highly visual and condensed stories...
Peters describes two projects that changed the character of Bloomingdale. The first was the Croton Aqueduct, a “monumental structure” that emerged from underground at 113th Street and Tenth Avenue, turning eastward through Manhattan Valley, and running down the westside to West 84th Street. The...
With Joe Baum as manager and Albert Stockli as chef, it soon became famous, launching Restaurant Associates which owned many of NYC’s top dining establishments. Duncan Hines lauded The Newarker for its “flaming sword specialties, authentic East Indian curries, [and] regional Swiss specialties....
In addition to 14 botanical gardens, there are 26 historic buildings housing various cultural organizations across its vast campus. Six of the buildings were the first to be designated as New York City landmarks in 1965, including the Greek Revival-style music hall – which is one of NYC’s...
Public housing projects ( caseríos ) have supplanted the old urban slums; people initially resisted them because they violated cultural expectations of individual housing and community. High-rise condominiums were constructed in the 1950s and have become desirable housing choices. In the few remaining...