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Louis Bouché, The Stettheimer Dollhouse and Mama’s Boy
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by
From the Fulton Market to the Forty-Deuce: Leland Bobbé’s New York in the 1970s
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by
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A View of Melrose
On a hot August afternoon last summer, I left the office early and caught the 5 train north. My objective was to locate the site of the Ursuline Convent in what had once been the rural village of Melrose, and was now the heart of the South Bronx.
From Expressway to Contemplative Oasis: The Elevated West Side Highway
When racing in a cab down West Street trying to make it in time for a meeting, how many people think back just a few decades when an elevated expressway ran down the western edge of the city from the Henry Hudson Expressway to Battery Park?
Conserving the Rufus King Traveling Medicine Chest
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by
The Apple Peeler and Corer
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 by
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Civil Rights in Brooklyn
A behind the scenes peek into the making of New York at its Core and some of the Civil Rights Era artifacts that will be on view in the exhibition.
Conserving the Rufus King Traveling Medicine Chest
Jamaica, Queens was home to Rufus King, one of our first senators. Inside his former farmhouse–still standing today–was a medicine chest, and inside the chest….well, you’ll have to read on to find out.
A View of Melrose
On a hot August afternoon last summer, I left the office early and caught the 5 train north. My objective was to locate the site of the Ursuline Convent in what had once been the rural village of Melrose, and was now the heart of the South Bronx.