This is a fun little tourist documentary on Greenwich Village’s hip bohemian scene in 1960. The folk music scene was just popping at this time, but the Village was well known as a cultural exper
This is the grave of Jimmy Walker. Born in 1881 in New York, James John Walker came out of the Irish politics of the turn-of-the-century. His father was a working class guy, a carpenter who eventually
There’s tons of neat tools today to visualize history and culture. I happen to have absolutely no ability in this field except for coming up with some good ideas that I will never be able to mov
On August 10, 1935, members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) descended on the New York courthouse to demand the release of their leaders after arrests they had been jumped by anti-union thugs. Thi
On January 13, 1966, the New York City transit strike ended. This strike was notable both for the public sector unions putting newly elected New York Mayor John Lindsay in his place and in being the e
This is the grave of Fernando Wood. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Wood’s Spanish first name, highly unusual for an English-American at the time, came out of a gothic novel his mother liked. His
I have long railed against simplistic ideas that the solution for housing costs in cities is to simply build more housing. First, the so-called “law of supply and demand” is more of a simp
Uh…….. If running away from an angry mob sounds like something you’d want to do with your kids, there’s now an escape room for you. A company called One Before is building what