Snowy day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The day before my father died last March, I moved in close to his right ear and asked h...

"It was a lithographer's dream of winter" (from Letting Go by Philip Roth, 1962) Photo by Claudia Keenan http...

Socializing in the Tenderloin District, 1900s (still from a film by Thomas A. Edison) At dawn they spilled onto the narrow sidewalk...

The old-timers never forgot the winter of 1917.  At night the rivers froze like Colonial times, and during the day the frosty air hel...

Ready to charge across the Hudson River, an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc overlooks Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan.  I...

Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo...

My mother (left) poses with a friend on Sherman Avenue, Inwood, Manhattan, mid-1930s. My mother is living in a corner of her chil...