It would be perfectly fine for the 12-year old girl to ride the trolley across the 225 th Street Bridge. By 1940, she knew the city well ...

Dr. J.W. Amey appeared in a 1918 "great men" directory.   Ironically, the first time the newspapers took note of Jesse Willis Amey...

"The Sparrow's Home, Union Square, New York City," Stanley Fox for Harper's Weekly , 1869 Evidently New York City’s...

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

Advertising card, 1890s (New York Public Library) Allan Forman was born by the beach on Long Island, in a cottage built by his Mayflowe...

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

In 1899 when they started the Blue Pencil Club, the men were a bunch of rambunctious, though well-established, writers. They rent...