In August 2013, word came out about a luxury development on the Upper West Side with a few affordable housing units where the developer wanted to force the occupants of those units to go through a separate "poor door." New York has now approved the...
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It's about time I got back to this and finished it up. “City Enormities–Every Brute Can Beat His Beast,” New York, 1874 OK, this is not technically yet a dead.
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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...
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.