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Man Returns To Battery Park With Another Burmese Python

November 10, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Nassau County SPCA Detective Roper and ECO Goonan with 12-foot Burmese python seized at battery Park on October 11On October 11th, U.S. Park Police and New York City Parks Enforcement Officers alerted New York State Environmental Conservation Officer Goonan about a man with a large Burmese python in Battery Park near the Statue of Liberty ferry terminal in Manhattan. [Read more…] about Man Returns To Battery Park With Another Burmese Python

Filed Under: Nature, New York City Tagged With: Battery Park, Crime and Justice, Manhattan, New York City, snakes, Wildlife, Wildlife Rescues

Hudson River Riders: A Classroom On The Water

November 9, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hudson River Riders (courtesy Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club)Founded in 2003, the Yonkers Public Paddling Program, an arm of the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club (YPRC) was initially created to introduce people to the sport of kayaking. [Read more…] about Hudson River Riders: A Classroom On The Water

Filed Under: Nature, New York City, Recreation Tagged With: Education, Hudson River, Hudson River Riders, kayaking, New York City, paddling, Westchester County, Yonkers, Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club

Preservation League of New York State Names Excellence Award Winners

November 7, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Preservation league of nys logoSince 1984, the Preservation League of New York State’s annual Excellence Awards program has shone a light on the people who are using historic preservation to make all our lives better — through exemplary restoration projects, indispensable publications, individual action, and organizational distinction. [Read more…] about Preservation League of New York State Names Excellence Award Winners

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Architecture, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cattaraugus County, Erie County, Historic Preservation, Kingston, Manhattan, Medina, New York City, Olean, Orleans County, Owego, Preservation League of New York State, The Bronx, Tioga County, Ulster County

Poet-Boxer Arthur Cravan: The Man Who Shocked Greenwich Village

November 1, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Arthur Cravan, c. 1916.The first annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists opened at Manhattan’s Grand Central Palace on the evening of April 10, 1917. Thousands of guests gathered to celebrate what was to be the largest art show ever held in New York. The momentous occasion took place in an atmosphere of growing political tension as it coincided with America’s entry into the First World War.

In spite of these circumstances, there was a single figure who attracted widespread attention. Known by his adopted name of Arthur Cravan, he had been invited to deliver a lecture on “The Independent Artists in France and America.” His outrageous behavior shocked New York’s artistic elite. [Read more…] about Poet-Boxer Arthur Cravan: The Man Who Shocked Greenwich Village

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Art History, boxing, Cultural History, French History, Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, Manhattan, modernism, New York City, Sports History, Theatre, Vice, World War One

New York City Quietly Demolishes Historic Fort Totten Buildings

November 1, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Fort Totten Buildings Being Demolished in August 2023In August, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) demolished two city-owned, landmarked, Fort Totten 1892 barrack buildings (323 Story Avenue and 322 Murray Street), as well as earlier frame structure (317 Murray Street) from 1883, without involving the local community board or local residents.

The DOB claimed that the buildings posed an immediate safety concern, but the Department had issued the “emergency” demolition order in 2021, yet did not act on it until 2023. [Read more…] about New York City Quietly Demolishes Historic Fort Totten Buildings

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Department of Buildings, East River, Fort Totten, Historic Preservation, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Long Island Sound, Military History, New York City, New York City Fire Department, Queens, US Army

Preservationists Reviewing Siting for Thousands of 5G Towers

October 30, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

5G Tower illustration provided by Historic Districts CouncilThe Historic Districts Council of New York City is a consulting party to the Section 106 Historic Review Process for proposed Link5G Towers.

This summer, CityBridge, the private contractor installing 32-foot tall 5G towers, sought to begin the review process. [Read more…] about Preservationists Reviewing Siting for Thousands of 5G Towers

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: 5G Towers, Advocacy, Brooklyn, Cell Towers, development, Harlem, Historic Districts Council, Historic Preservation, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan, New York City, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx

Gangsterland: Organized Crime in 1920s New York City

October 27, 2023 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

gangsterlandThis week on the Historians Podcast Historan David Pietrusza talks about his new book Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City (Diversion Books, 2023).

Gangsterland is a site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through Roaring Twenties Manhattan, where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night. [Read more…] about Gangsterland: Organized Crime in 1920s New York City

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Jimmy Walker, Manhattan, New York City, NYPD, Podcasts, Social History, Vice

New York State Makes Large Investment in Renewable Energy

October 25, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Solar Farm -Alternative Renewable EnergyNew York State Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced what she called the largest state investment in renewable energy in United States history.

The conditional awards include three offshore wind and 22 land-based renewable energy projects totaling 6.4 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power 2.6 million New York homes and deliver approximately 12 percent of New York’s electricity needs once completed. [Read more…] about New York State Makes Large Investment in Renewable Energy

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Altona, Barre, Brownville, Burke, Caledonia, Chateaugay, Clinton, Clinton County, Cohocton, Delaware County, Dolgeville, Eagle, Ellenburg, energy, Fenner, Finger Lakes, Franklin County, Gouverneur, Groveland, Herkimer COunty, Kathy Hochul, Leicester, Livingston County, Long Island, Lyme, Madison County, Meredith, New York City, Niagara County, NYSERDA, Orleans County, Schuyler, Seneca County, Seneca Falls, Shelby, Somerset, St Lawrence County, Steuben County, Tyre, Wethersfield, Wyoming County, York

Professional Racist John Van Evrie & The New York Weekly Day Book

October 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

W.G. Jackman, engraver "The White Republic against the World. Portrait of John H. Van Evrie," after 1868 (American Antiquarian Society)Southern secession was a disaster for American nationalists with a pro-slavery vision. Few were as virulent as John Van Evrie (1814–1896), a Canadian educated as a physician, who spent the 1850s building a publishing company that churned out pro-slavery works, including the notorious New York Weekly Day Book newspaper.

Van Evrie’s pseudoscience theories, which lacked evidence even for the time, claimed black people were inferior to white people, defended slavery as practiced in the United States, and attacked abolitionism. [Read more…] about Professional Racist John Van Evrie & The New York Weekly Day Book

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: 1863 Draft Riots, Abolition, Black History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Irish Immigrants, James Buchanan, Journalism, Massachusetts Historical Society, New York City, Newspapers, Political History, Publishing, Reconstruction, Slavery

Rediscovered Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw

October 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Thomas W. Commeraw stonewareThe pottery of Thomas W. Commeraw, a stoneware manufacturer working in the city of New York during 1797-1819, has been acquired by American museums since the early twentieth century.

Always assumed to be a white potter of European descent, Commeraw’s remarkable life story languished in obscurity until a chance encounter with a census record sent collector, auctioneer and author Brandt Zipp on a long journey to bring it to light. [Read more…] about Rediscovered Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History, New York City Tagged With: African American Archive of Columbia County, Black History, ceramics, Columbia County Historical Society, Industrial History, Material Culture, New York City, The Studio Potter Journal

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