Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...

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A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...

A hundred years ago, New York City was the epicenter of cultural and economic growth. Jazz clubs, flapper fashion, and artists like Langston Hughes grew popular in the 1920s. Prohibition, ...

Projects will be on display and students will be available to explain and share their work which includes papers, documentaries, performances, websites and exhibitions. The New York City History Day ...

For the past 75 years, every mayor of New York City has spent time getting to know Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island — and also Israel. The tradition began just after Israel’s ...

On the afternoon of May 2, 1975, the heads of three major New York commercial banks sat down with Governor Hugh Carey at his midtown Manhattan office. The meeting was brief and the bankers got quickly ...

K. Krombie, tour guide at Purefinder and author of Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions, leads her Death in New York tour stopping at City Hall Park on Oct. 20 ...

Mr. Mamdani, a state lawmaker and democratic socialist, will be the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history. Mr. Mamdani, a state lawmaker and democratic socialist, will be the first Muslim mayor in ...