The Stuyvesant Pear Tree (lithograph, 1861) (New-York Historical Society) In 1867 an old pear tree, planted 200 years earlier by a ...

The tables and chairs have been rearranged; otherwise the room appears much as it did 100 years ago. Some archives are worse than oth...

Ashcan School painter George B. Luks sketched dinner at Maria's restaurant in Greenwich Village, 1890s. In the 1890s, Maria’s res...