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Tag Archives: New York City
1913: Whitlock’s Folly
Once located on the southeastern tip of the Bronx, this mansion was built by Benjamin Morris Whitlock in 1859. Sitting on a fifty-acre estate, the structure boasted a hundred rooms and was said to have cost $350,000 (about $9.5 million … Continue reading
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1948: Poets’ Party
A party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City to welcome poets Sir Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell (seated, left of center) to the US for a series of readings. W. H. Auden is perched on the ladder … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Books, Bookstores, Charles Henri Ford, Delmore Schwartz, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bishop, Gore Vidal, Horace Gregory, José Garcia Villa, Lisa Larsen, Marianne Moore, Marya Zaturenska, New York City, Osbert Sitwell, Photography, Poetry, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, USA, W. H. Auden, William Rose Benét
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1940: Central Park
Louis Lozowick: Central Park (1940)
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2013: Bronx Overpasses
Valeri Larko: Bronx Overpasses (2013) More Paintings: Source.
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, New York City, Painting, USA, Valeri Larko, Women
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1916: Don’t Be A Scab
I’d seen this beautiful photograph before, but hadn’t realized it existed in such high definition. I retouched it a little (the original is here, at the Library of Congress) and drew out some of the details: The date for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Children, History, Labor, New York City, Photography, Strikes, Transit Workers Union, Unions
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2140: The Market is a Failure
“Hang with me. Follow what I’m saying. We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work for money. Money is thought of as value.” “Okay, I get … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, 22nd Century, Art, Books, Digital Art, Environment, France, Kim Stanley Robinson, New York City, Science Fiction, Stephan Martinière, USA
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2393: A View from the Future
Once the financial capital of the world, New York began in the early twenty-first century to attempt to defend its elaborate and expensive infrastructure against the sea. But that infrastructure had been designed and built with an expectation of constant … Continue reading
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16th Century: Manhattan Before New York
By the time Europeans appeared on the scene, a mere five hundred years ago, what is now New York City had as many as fifteen thousand inhabitants—estimates vary widely—with perhaps another thirty to fifty thousand in the adjacent parts of … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, Colonialism, Native Americans, New York City, USA
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1957: The Mayflower Arrives in New York City
In 1957, a replica of the Mayflower—the Mayflower II—was built in England based on reconstructed blueprints of the ship from an American museum. It set sail for the United States on April 20, 1957 and arrived in New York City … Continue reading
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