The Women Who Won the Vote: Louisine Elder Havemeyer
August 23, 2017
—Johanna Neuman
A profile of one of New York City’s elite women who helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.
Category: New York
Magic in Central Park and Other Amazing Feats
August 1, 2017
—Maureen Meister
The recently rebuilt boat landings on the Lake in Central Park have inspired Meister to analyze how people think about reconstructions. Why are some praiseworthy and others cheesy? Quality and intent both matter. When reconstructions are grounded in a people’s attachment to a special place, such as Central Park, the new work can be splendid and even admirable.
#Read Up and Celebrate NYC Immigrant Heritage Week!
April 21, 2017
This week is NYC Immigrant Heritage Week! Here is a list of good reads that’ll get you appreciating the city, the people, and our history.
NYU Press celebrates 100 years
April 19, 2016
On April 17th, 1916, New York University Press was founded by action of the University Council’s Board of Trustees. An effort initiated by Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, who stated its purpose to be: “to publish contributions to higher learning by eminent scholars”.
James Connolly, New York and the Easter Rising
March 28, 2016
—Paul Moses
One of the many pleasures of researching a history of New York’s Irish and Italians was encountering the revolutionary heroes from both homelands who occasionally crossed the city’s stage. Among the most memorable of the Irish visitors is the socialist James Connolly, who is being remembered this weekend as the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising is marked.
Irish & Italians, rivals & allies: A St. Patrick’s Day appreciation of how, over time, two New York City immigrant populations learned to get along
March 17, 2016
St. Patrick’s Day is a perfect time to remember that rish and Italian immigrant groups — who did as much as any others to create the city we know and love — eventually came together and even intermarried on a large scale.
The Sale of Stuyvesant Town: Preserving Rent Controls and the Right to the City
March 15, 2016
On April 18, 1943, the plans to build Stuyvesant Town were first made public. The plans called for the construction on an eighteen-block area that could house 11,250 middle-income World War II veterans and their families. How times have changed.
New York has a long history of welcoming popes
September 25, 2015
—Paul Moses As Pope Francis arrives this week for the fifth-ever papal visit to the Big Apple, he’ll be buoyed by a modern-day tradition — New Yorkers love their visiting… READ MORE