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Dec. 22, 1984 Twenty-five years ago, four young black men rode the Number 2 subway from the Bronx in order to rob video game machines in Lower...
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Find out more about Danielle: Danielle Schneider has had a passion for NY history since she realized that the best stories -- & mostly everybody -- started here. Billy the Kid was born here (didja know that?), and the pirate Captain Kidd lived here in a mansion on Wall Street (how prophetic). There are also NY stories of calamity & hard times, but they're pretty riveting…sure to lift you out of the everyday humdrum, the cultural claustrophobia of Now. E-mail: taikoninja@gmail.com. |
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Dec. 4 - 20, 2009 Writer/actor Jeffrey Solomon's one man theatrical mockumentary, 'Santa Claus is Coming Out,' at the Kirk Theatre, asks the question,...
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(Special Project: Holiday Guide) Dec. 21, 1933 Seventy-six years ago, thousands of people flocked to Rockefeller Center to see the new lavish stage...
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Dec. 10 - 13, 2009 at Joe's Pub Is that Marlene Dietrich on stage? No, but close. Spellbinding cabaret singer/songwriter Ute Lemper, eerily like...
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Nov. 18, 1946 Years in office: 1926 - 1932 No New York mayor has symbolized the decade he governed better than James "Jimmy" Walker, a...
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Nov. 15, 1956 Fifty-three years ago today, thousands of screaming teenage girls swarmed the Paramount Theater’s entrance in Times Square for the...
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Nov. 9, 1965 Forty-four years ago today, weary commuters were rushing home when the entire state plunged suddenly into darkness. What followed was...
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Special Project: Halloween 1883 to the present In its 126-year history, The Chelsea Hotel, located in New York's Chelsea neighborhood at 222 West 23rd...
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Special Project: Halloween 279 Water Street: Built 1794 The Hole-in-the-Wall: Mid-1800s The Bridge Cafe: 1979 - current In its 215 years, the three...
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Special Project: Halloween April 10, 1953 Fifty-six years ago, the 3-D Gothic horror movie House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, opened at the...
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