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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, ...
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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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How the Other Half Lived ...and Lives

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"Bandit's Roost," Richard Hoe Lawrence, c. 1890, Museum of the City of New York The New York City tenement...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

New York (on film): A View from a Window

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Greenwich Village View: Rear Window was filmed on a set built at Paramount Studios in LA Movies have long been filmed on location in N...
Friday, December 21, 2012

A (New Yorker's) Christmas Poem

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1862 Illustration from Moore's "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" On July 15, 1779,  Clement Clark Moore was born in New Yo...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Crystal Palace

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  Crystal Palace , New York City, Illustrated News, July 30 1853 In July 1853 two prominent news weeklies, the Illustrated New...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Food, NYC

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The restaurant at Astor's swanky St. Regis Hotel, c. 1905 "God! The restaurants!  New York has become the Floren...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Storm Clouds

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Words are difficult to come by after witnessing the devastation brought on by Hurricane Sandy. In the wake of that storm, it is hard ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Fashion on the Foot in Old Manhattan

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"Only a shoe! How small a matter, and yet how important!   The Human Foot by William Beneke, 1888 Fashion chronicler extrao...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

"The Clock"-a New York Story

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Joe: "Where will I meet you?" Alice: "Under the clock at the Astor at seven."  Released in May 1945, The Clock ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

High Class Apartments

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Things are looking up: From 1901 until 1929, New York City residents would become largely apartment dwellers. With a new law passed in 19...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

A Time To Be Born

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Dawn Powell Writer Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was born in the Midwest (Ohio) but lived the quintessential writer’s life in New York Cit...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

"I ♥ New York"

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In 1977, while working for the NY advertising agency, Wells Rich Greene, Milton Glaser created New York's most iconic image: the ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Touring Greenwich Village

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Born in Canada, Beals was devoted to documenting New York City In the first two decades of the 20th century, Greenwich Village became ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

manhatta/manhattan

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Still from "Manhatta" a 1920 modernist look at the city. Painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand's 1920 shor...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New York Seen/Taught from a Distance

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By Rodger C. Birt In 1980 I was offered a rare opportunity and a pedagogical challenge:  the department I had recently joined a...