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.

See the spookiest sites where the city’s gone to seed!

From Joseph Pulitzer to Georgina Schuyler, check out 10 things you might not know about Lady Liberty.

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

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

We look at the industry’s 400 year history in New York!

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.

Rockaway-Plymouth flight made history!

Without support, the Weeksville Heritage Center could close as early as July.

History of the Lower East Side’s Lung Block considers connections between public health, housing, progressive reform, gentrification and immigrant experience.

Show off your New York Knowledge at MCNY’s Keys to the City Scavenger Hunt!

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire catalyzed the fight for industrial reform, and highlighted the women workers who fought and died for improved conditions.

These women introduced the Modern Art movement to New York City.

Grand Central’s most beloved meeting place gets appraised!