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PHOTOS: When Penn Station Was Beautiful

Posted 05.11.2012

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Penn Station wasn't always a claustrophobic, cement labyrinth of chain stores and lost tourists. The original Penn Station was a towering and grand en...

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PHOTOS: Stanley Kubrick's NYC Subway Photography

Posted 05.07.2012

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Following in the footsteps of Walker Evans, a young Stanley Kubrick, during his tenure as a staff photographer for Look magazine in the 1940s, capture...

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The Faithful Shopper: April Antiques

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 04.16.2012

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Faith Hope Consolo

The Spring Show, (May 3 to 6 at the Park Avenue Armory, sponsored by the Art and Antique Dealers League of America) led me to make a list of some of New York City's great shops for furniture, jewelry and objets d'art.

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NYC Rapped Up In Transgender Birth Certificate Case

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.26.2012

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NEW YORK — He had been through sex-change surgery and wanted his birth certificate to reflect the man he'd become, at nearly 70. City health of...

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PHOTOS: New Gritty Exhibit On '70s Cops

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.14.2012

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The tragic shooting death and funeral of New York City cop Peter Figoski this week brought into focus the dangers of patrolling the city's streets, an...

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LOOK: 8 Urban Planning Designs For The Future Of NYC

Posted 12.15.2011

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Earlier this year we marked the 200th anniversary of the Manhattan grid plan, that easy-to-navigate layout of streets and avenues that gives us Manhat...

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SLIDESHOW: Stanley Kubrick's NYC Photography

Posted 12.06.2011

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Before Stanley Kubrick was a master filmmaker (Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining) he was a teenager i...

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Ireland Punching Above its Weight in Design, Too

John Lee | Posted 12.04.2011

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John Lee

The vision of the World Design Capital project is to promote and encourage the use of design to further the social, economic and cultural development of the world's cities.

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Steve Mnuchin, Meet Rose Gudiel

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.03.2011

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Peter Dreier

Gudiel would like Mnuchin to visit her at her home, because his OneWest Bank is trying to evict her and her family. If Mnuchin won't come to visit Gudiel, she will visit him, and bring some of her neighbors and friends with her.

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Bicycling in New York City: Historic Photos from the Museum of the City of New York

Lacy Schutz | Posted 07.13.2011

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Lacy Schutz

May is National Bike Month and we are pleased to offer a look back at the heyday of bicycling in city. Don't forget to ride your bike to work during Bike to Work Week, May 16 through 20.

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Comics of the Past: Appreciated on Many Levels

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Kelly

Fifty years ago, parents outright discouraged children from reading comics because they "took up time that could be used reading real literature." But children knew all along that comics had value.

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The Apollo Theater and How It Shaped American Entertainment: New Exhibit at Museum of the City of New York

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Kelly

Long before there was television's American Idol, there was Amateur Night at the Apollo, and aspiring performers knew what the reward was.

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Black New York: Historic Photos From the Museum of the City of New York

Lacy Schutz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lacy Schutz

There are countless stories in our collection. We're proud to celebrate Black History Month with this selection of photographs about the movement of the African American community within Manhattan.

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Forgotten Women: Notorious and Notable

Gerit Quealy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gerit Quealy

The exhibit spotlights women whose 15 minutes of fame weren't quite met -- maybe they got 14, maybe only six or seven -- but whose stories are bright threads in the fabric of women's history.

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Political Cartoons -- Surprisingly Timeless

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Kelly

A new exhibit of political cartoons drawn over a thirty-year period by illustrator Denys Wortman (1887-1958) has recently opened at the Museum of the City of New York.

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What Smart People Wear

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Henry Adams

Watching to see what chic people wear is fascinating. One mightn't think it has anything whatsoever to do with styles from the past, but of cou...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

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Museum Of The City Of New York Releases List Of 400 Top New Yorkers In History

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In honor of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage across the Atlantic, the Museum of the City of New York came up with a list of 400 notable and legendary New Yo...

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