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Monday, August 23, 2021

“Would you welcome, Miss Diane Keaton.”

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  What a lovely blouse, Mrs Corleone! Diane Keaton as Kay Adams Corleone in The Godfather (1972) On December 28, 1972, Diane Ke...
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Friday, April 20, 2018

Hey, girl, is that guerrilla art? The Fearless Girl, the Charging Bull, and the Public Square

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The "Charging Bull" and the "Fearless Girl," 8 Broadway, New York City In March 2017, the statue "Fearless Girl...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz: Married at Last!

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"I love you, Lucille." "I am busy getting married to Lucille Ball." This is likely the only time this particular ...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Behind the Scenes in a Restaurant

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Public Space: the Exchange Buffet, NYC, 1920s In 1916, the Consumers League of New York City issued a study of 1,017 Women Restaurant ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Alone at the Wheel: Driving in Manhattan

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"The roadster glided through traffic as easily, gracefully as a fish swimming downstream, the first lights of evening sliding backward...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Faith Baldwin of Brooklyn

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New York and the (Aspirations, Dreams) Lives of Women: Faith Baldwin "Romance novel" is a useless phrase. Let's just sti...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Skyscraper Souls: Warren William and the Working Girl

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Warren William: Villain, City Dweller. Actor Warren William (1894 – 1948) has been called the "king of pre-code" Hollywood.  ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Anonymous, New York: Ursula Parrott

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You are Here, Manhattan, 1929. Back Cover of Ex-Wife, Dell paperback edition. My husband left me four years ago. Why--I don't p...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

"Calling" in New York: A New Year's Day Tradition

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Mrs. Pegu, and drawing-room, are all laid out in state to receive New Year's calls.  Thirty-two young gentlemen make a brief appeara...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Selling (Off) New York

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Cardboard Cut-Outs?: The cast of Million Dollar Listing, New York "I think the doorman is just as important as the guy who owns th...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Hellward, New York? The Shimmy Dance and Other Indecencies

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Dance, Daughters, Dance! 1928 By the time a young actress danced in front of a three-way mirror and on table tops, shaking her body a...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Color of Postwar New York

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Walking, 1956, Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery (most of the Leiter images used here are from the same source) Photographer Sau...
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Windows, Shopping, and Christmas Past, NYC

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Christmas Card Display: the observed and the observer From any recent study of New York the visitor from another planet w...
Monday, November 9, 2015

General Pershing's Welcome in New York City, 1919

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  General Pershing salutes New York "The Heart of New York goes out to you," wrote mayor John F. Hylan in an "air lette...
Friday, August 14, 2015

August 14, 1945: Times Square and a Couple of Kisses

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You must remember this.... Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt took the iconic image of the nurse and sailor locked in an emb...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

One Night at Sherry's: James Hazen Hyde Has a Ball (and Some Cake)

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Party Over Here! Guests at Hyde's 1905 Ball at Sherry's Restaurant At the age of 23, Manhattan socialite and supreme party-e...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Signs of the Time: Federal Art in NYC

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Music Contest Poster, Estelle Levine, Artist, Federal Art Project, Library of Congress During the Great Depression, the Works Pr...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Street Scenes: Cropping Into History

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On Fifth Avenue: A cropped image, c. 1900. (See Full Size Image Here.) I spend a lot of time looking through visual archives to find im...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Washingtons in New York: The Nation, the Publick, and the Enslaved

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George: "Mary, Please come with me to New York!" (Illustration by Norman Rockwell, 1932) On April 23, 1789, just one we...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Owners of America, NYC

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"By their banks ye shall know them," Alfred Henry Lewis In 1908 and 1909, Cosmopolitan Magazine published a series titled, &q...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Jackie, A New Yorker

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Jack and Jackie Greet New York, 1960 After becoming First Lady, Jackie Kennedy seemed to do anything to avoid Washington, D.C. She did i...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Take a Walk: Time Traveling Through the City Streets

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Time Traveling on the Upper West Side, 1971 (click text here to go to film) Take a Walk New York is made for walking. And it's a ...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Bright Lights, Big City: Early 1980s New York

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The Write Crowd: McInerney, Janowitz, Ellis, 1980s, NYC "Die Yuppie Scum" was common graffiti that writer Jay McInerney remem...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Coney Island on Their Mind

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"Hot town, summer in the city/ back of my neck getting dirty and gritty." 
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The Beauty of the Miniature: Helena Rubinstein in New York City

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Madame Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) was a revolutionary force in the world of beauty. She was an entrepreneur, a b...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

A Decisive Moment: Marilyn Monroe in New York

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Marilyn Monroe: The City at Her Feet New York City, 1955. Gazing down at Park Avenue, Marilyn Monroe stands on the balcony of the...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Chrysler Building: A Symbol of the Times

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1931: A Dazzling New York Skyline of Architects Photo:  L-R: A. Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria)...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Thanksgiving Day Menus & Traditions: New York City

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Thanksgiving dinner at the Hotel New Yorker, at the height of the Great Depression, cost $2.25. Guests could not only choose turkey as a...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Dustin Hoffman's New York

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Dustin Hoffman, New York City, 1969: An Actor's Actor. Photo by John Dominis Dustin Hoffman's New York - Jenny Thompson In many ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Mid-Century Modern: Inside the Mad Men's Living Room

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Places! Don & Meagan Draper's NYC apartment, c. 1968 According to a brief shot of an envelope in a recent episode of Mad Men , D...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Summer Retreats: New York Style

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"By the way, old chap, what do you people do in New York when summer comes?" "We get out," Miss De Peyster b...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Mary Lincoln in New York

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“It is imperative that I should do something for my relief, and I want you to meet me in New York, between the 30th of August and the ...
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