Lucie Levine

New York’s 1795 Yellow Fever Pandemic led to the creation of the New York City Board of Health

Depression-era New Yorkers created not only their own homes, but also their own functioning communities, on the city’s parkland. From Central Park to City Island, Redhook to Riverside Park, these Tent Cities, Hard Luck Towns and Boxcar Colonies proliferated throughout New York.

Have you ever noticed a castle in the middle of the water about 50 miles north of New York City? That’s Bannerman Castle, a long-abandoned arsenal turned adventurer’s hotspot.

Follow in the footsteps of the fanciest flappers in the 5 boroughs!

From the first organized skating rink in the United States, to midtown “Icetravaganzas” New York has been gliding since at least 1858.

Where an illustrious history of music and art rolls in with the tide!

When “old time banana handlers” plied the docks at Old Slip

Three structures on Lower Manhattan’s Washington Street are the last standing architectural vestiges of the once-thriving community of Little Syria.

When the city’s “roof gardens” served up the Gilded Age’s best entertainment

The Hellfighters spent 191 days at the Front, more than any other American unit. In that time, they never lost a trench to the enemy, or a man to capture.