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I tried to find out if Rachel survived. She's not in any census subsequent to this. It's possible she could have married. I'm su...

an excerpt from the nytimes When a Papered Wall Acts Like a Web Site, By SARAH MASLIN NIR MANY people hustle right past the wall pasted with...

I wonder where Cohen was living at 171 Ludlow, unless it changed from a stable sometime between 1933 and 1936.

Alcohol Poison 1932 by 1932, the East Broadway, 10th Ward area is no longer fancy. Many local residents were dying of ...

East Broadway Linens 1895 by 1895, East Broadway was a fancy shopping destination

Francis Crowley of 22 East Broadway is caught for stealing shoes in 1867

The right side of the block is the north side with even numbers. The first store on the right seems to be a glass store numbered 98. This is...

above, pictured in 1935 an excerpt from the villager The long-shuttered Loew’s Canal Theater in Chinatown could get a new life as a performi...

If memory serve's me correctly Shawn is, or was, a Grand Street resident and the sister of former PS 177er Elaine Katz. from ny1.com The...

A 2004 view of mainly Rivington Street and surrounding area

Turkish Night Club 2 The descriptions: New York, New York. Turkish nightclub on Allen St...

Fulton's steamboats were constructed nearby. I wonder if James Fulton Pringle was related. Here's a link to the full image

Being curious about the man considered the forgotten man of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial celebration, I did some research on...

An email I received from Bernie Dolnansky ECKSTEIN--Herbert, died peacefully at home in Great Neck at the age of 87 on October 27, 2009. Bel...

Eastman Smith Engel much from the pdf above comes from the Rise and Fall of the Jewish G...

Silver Dollar Smith from wikipedia's entry on historical criminals of New York 1843-...

You wouldn't want to mess with Monk. Image by Pat Hamou. Pat has a great mobster site six for five and he sells his art work, very reas...

from Civil War Women ...After Custer's death, Libbie moved to New York, where she sought work to supplement her small widow's pensio...

From Bowery Boogie from October 12 An industrial sized robotic arm has recently taken up residency in the pedestrian island on Pike Street b...