🍃Carkner🥺online YIVO talk starting in about an hour: "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author Henry H. Sapoznik focuses on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black-Jewish cultural interactions, restaurants, real estate, and journalism to tell the history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present."
https://yivo.org/Tourists-Guide
Angie ManginoEdgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction, perfected the short story, and wrote "The Raven" in New York City. He walked through Greenwich Village cemeteries with Virginia, finished his only novel on Waverly Place, and spent his final years in a Fordham cottage watching his young wife die of tuberculosis. New York gave him both his greatest triumph and his deepest sorrow.
#Literature #NYCHistory #GothicFiction
https://citybeautifulblog.com/2025/09/17/edgar-allan-poe-and-new-york-the-city-of-the-raven/
#Literature #NYCHistory #GothicFiction
https://citybeautifulblog.com/2025/09/17/edgar-allan-poe-and-new-york-the-city-of-the-raven/
myrmepropagandistEver wonder what Central Park was like before it was a park? This video is excellent. #nyc #history #senecaVillage #nycHistory #centralPark #aquaduct
(I like how this video ends with "and people keep saying there are secret tunnels IDK..." LMAO Don't let the dream die.)
What's Below New York's Central Park?
Ever heard church bells ring on their own? At St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, Manhattan's oldest site of continuous worship, legend says Peter Stuyvesant's ghost still paces the aisles. Built in 1799 on the Dutch governor's farm, this architectural gem layers Georgian, Greek Revival, and Gothic styles into one building. From stolen bodies to phantom hymns, it's a hidden treasure connecting modern NYC to its colonial past.
#NYCHistory #UrbanExploration #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/2025/09/19/st-marks-in-the-bowery-history-mystery-and-ghosts/
#NYCHistory #UrbanExploration #Architecture
https://citybeautifulblog.com/2025/09/19/st-marks-in-the-bowery-history-mystery-and-ghosts/
Travel Rewards 101Fun fact about Times Square, New York. Originally called Longacre Square, it was renamed after The New York Times moved its headquarters there in 1904, leading to its iconic name today. #NYCHistory #IconicLandmarks #xplrnow Image Credit:@doronis_ on instagram
Did you know Labor Day was created in New York City? In 1882, 10,000 workers marched down Broadway in the first Labor Day parade, demanding better working conditions and fair wages.
This wasn't just a parade, but the birth of a movement that would become a national holiday. NYC's labor organizers literally created the template for workers' rights celebrations across America.
#LaborDay #NYCHistory #WorkersRights #LaborMovement #AmericanHistory #NYC #SocialJustice
https://www.untappedcities.com/labor-day-created-new-york-city/?ref=daily-newsletter
This wasn't just a parade, but the birth of a movement that would become a national holiday. NYC's labor organizers literally created the template for workers' rights celebrations across America.
#LaborDay #NYCHistory #WorkersRights #LaborMovement #AmericanHistory #NYC #SocialJustice
https://www.untappedcities.com/labor-day-created-new-york-city/?ref=daily-newsletter
Rob Vincent 🎙️👻I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
🕵️old klezmers🎻After his mother died in '22, I kind of lost a trace of him, he drops out of the music union directory for a while too. in 1928 when he got married to Miriam Goldstein he gave his address as Jack Levitt's address (and that of several of his musician relatives) at 335 Williams Ave in Brooklyn.
still going through some names Dave Levitt gave me back in the spring when I interviewed him, and he suggested Max Nacht (1894–1971), a Brooklyn-born pianist who was friends with Dave's grandfather the #klezmer musician Jack Levitt (1901–74) and played with him for years. Here's a clip of researcher Hankus Netsky interviewing Jack's son Marty about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqi-HkoZqUk&ab_channel=levittlegacy
Marty And Hankus
BrewminateIn early 20th-century NYC, Assyrian palaces rose again — but this time, they served lobster.
Opulence, orientalism, and cocktails.
#Brewminate #Architecture #Assyria #NYCHistory #LobsterPalaces
