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Digitizing New York City's Past

As NYC's physical history gets torn down and/or re-purposed beyond recognition, it's comforting to know that there are institutions,...
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"What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past" published today

What happens when a New York Jewish pack-rat daughter inherits her New York Jewish pack-rat father's belongings? She embarks on a Jewish...
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Little Spain: immigrant memories of New York’s La Colonia on exhibit at NYU

  • Little Spain
  • December 11, 2010
Although you might not guess it now, New York once had a cohesive community of immigrants from Spain. It wasn’t a big group—just 25,000...
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New York City as dodo bird

The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius, free of natural predators. Then European sailors came, bringing with them rats, pigs and other predators...
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