Category Archives: NYC History

A photo and history post on a little fireboat in Brooklyn Bridge Park named after former New York governor Alfred E. Smith.

Visiting a weathered World I Memorial on Tillary and Jay Streets in Downtown Brooklyn.

The Bush Clinton Playground is named for one failed presidential candidate, but that is not why the name is memorable.

“The toast is, “Freedom’s favorite son,
Health, peace, and joy to Washington!”

A detailed history of New York City’s Evacuation Day, a former holiday that landed on November 25 and was second only to Independence Day in NYC’s patriotic pantheon.

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Avenging the old Penn Station.

〜A boy and his homing pigeons〜

〜The feathered news couriers of Manhattan in 1895〜

Reviewing an 1895 magazine piece describing the Brooklyn Bridge’s “Cobweb Lane,” a special path on the Bridge that appears only at night.

〜Let’s take a walk across the Summit Street Bridge〜

〜An article on the introduction of the common house-sparrow to New York, and why it was brought here〜