It isn't dead horse blogging (and don't worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows in New York City is great. There may be some cow tunnels underneath the city...
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Horse overcome by heat, New York City, 1910.
On January 13, 1874, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers met in Tompkins Square Park to protest their unemployment and poverty. There, the police would beat them in the first large-scale.
Speaking of the New Gilded Age, Michael Bloomberg sure is the perfect plutocrat/political leader for it: It was only a matter of time — assuming Michael Bloomberg couldn't run out the clock for two more weeks — before a reporter managed to ask the mayor...
This selection from New York Police Chief George Matsell's Vocabulum, or the Rogue’s Lexicon, a collection of criminal slang, is amazing. It's available here in its entirety. Here are some.
I'd call Emily Douglas' response to DeBlasio's victory over Christine Quinn in yesterday's New York City mayoral primary a bit unfortunate, if understandable to an extent. Even though it's pretty.
Jim Crow worked so well for race, applying its principles to separate the rich and poor makes total sense! A luxury high-rise apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side is set to have a so-called “poor door” — a separate entrance for low-income residents receiving subsidized...
Major bummer that the Worldport at JFK is going to be demolished. I suppose it was pretty well inevitable given the space considerations at the airport, but it's a pretty.
Cool article on the 1913 barbers' strike in New York, which led to the reduction of barbers' workweeks from 92(!!!) hours to a mere 62 with Sunday off. I may.
I'm not sure that giant giveaways of the playgrounds of public housing units to wealthy developers in order to build luxury housing is the best way to change New York City. Unless you are Michael Bloomberg and want Manhattan to be an exclusive island for...
I found these proposals to re-reengineer New York City pretty interesting. Essentially there are 3--create marshlands on the edge of Manhattan to serve as a buffer against rising sea levels.
Is Michael Bloomberg starring in a new version of 1984 on Broadway? If so, this would be a good poster for the play. What, you mean this is a serious.