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Every month, Take a Walk New York produces an email newsletter with interesting stories about New York and a calendar of our scheduled tours. You can access past issues here. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the 2015-2017 newsletters. Submit your email above to receive new issues directly in your inbox.

2020
August
  • Slaves in Early New York
  • Where Free Blacks Lived in New York  Before the Civil War
  • Civil War Draft Riots
May
  • Yellow Fever, Smallpox,  & Cholera Epidemics in New York
  • Twentieth-Century Epidemics: Polio, Influenza, AIDS
  • Parallels with Coronavirus and Past Epidemics
March
  • Pushcarts in New York
  • The Lower East Side
  • Essex Market, Yesterday and Today
February
  • The Story of Victoria Woodhull 
  • The First Woman to Run for President
  • The First Woman-Owned Brokerage Firm
January
  • The Four Madison Square Gardens 
  • How Madison Square Garden Got Its Name
  • The Murder of Stanford White
2019
December
  • The Manhattan-Brooklyn Greenway 
  • How Ocean Parkway Came To Be
  • A Creative Idea of the Central Park Designers, in Brooklyn
November
  • How Macy's Began
  • The Two Locations of Macy's in Manhattan
  • The Woman Who Helped Make Macy's a Leading Department Store
October
  • How Bicycles Changed New York in the Late 1800s
  • The First Dedicated Bike Lane in America
  • Bike vs. Vehicle Accidents in New York
September
  • Bringing Electricity to NYC Homes and Businesses 
  • The Battle Between Edison and Westinghouse/Tesla
  • Uses of Alternating and Direct Current
August
  • The Narrowest House in Manhattan 
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay's Home
  • How the Cherry Lane Theatre Came to Be
July
  • New Yorkers Walk Where Water and Space Had Been 
  • How Landfill Changed the Size and Shape of Manhattan
  • Building on Air Rights in New York City
June
  • Robert Moses and the Henry Hudson Parkway
  • How Moses Pieced Together Financing for Pet Projects
  • Hudson Rising Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society
May
  • New York's Secret Garden
  • Conservatory Garden in Central Park
  • Our 2019 Jane's Walk
April
  • The Oldest Library in New York City
  • Creation of the New York Public Library System
  • Fun Facts About the 42nd Street Library
March
  • Immigration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Where Immigrants Arrived Before Ellis Island
  • Major U. S. Immigration Laws
February
  • The Strange Thing on Roofs on NYC Buildings
  • How New Yorkers Get Their Water
  • Unusual Uses for Water Towers
January
  • An Important Toll Bridge in Early New York 
  • Kingsbridge Road
  • How the Map of Northern Manhattan Changed

2018
December
  • Who Wrote "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"?
  • Clement Clarke Moore
  • Full Text of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"

November
  • The Calder Sidewalk
  • The City's Past Embedded in the Pavement
  • Walks of Fame in New York City Streets

October
  • The Deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918
  • Dr. Royal S. Copeland Saves NYC with Common Sense Measures
  • Germ City Exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York

September
  • New York's Green Island
  • How Roosevelt Island Collects Its Trash
  • Cornell Tech's Eco-Friendly Campus

August
  • Elizabeth Jennings Graham's Challenge to Segregated Streetcars
  • Adah Isaacs Menken, a Rebel New York Woman
  • Kosher Meat Riots of 1902
July
  • Helping the Masses Stay Clean and Cool
  • What Happened to Public Bathhouses
  • Open Fire Hydrants
June
  • How New York Street Vendors Created Ice Cream Treats
  • The Invention of Air Conditioning
  • Custom Tour Ideas
May
  • The "Mayor of Central Park"
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Reservoir
  • Scuba Divers in the Central Park Reservoir
April
  • Tenements of  New York
  • Laws to Improve Tenement Life
  • The Tenement Museum
March
  • Sacred Spaces in New York
  • Creating an Eruv  for Orthodox Jews
  • Spiritual Central Park
February
  • Funding the Statue of Liberty
  • A Special Partnership Between France and the U.S.
  • The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus
January
  • What Is Greater New York?
  • Creation of a Five-Borough City
  • Andrew Haswell Green

2017
December
  • Who Really Invented Christmas
  • How Washington Irving Influenced Christmas in America
  • The Cult of True Womanhood
November
  • The Dramatic Demonstration of  the Elevator Safety Brake
  • The World's First Passenger Elevator
  • What Cooper Union and the Haughwout Buildings Have in Common
October
  • New York's First Subway
  • The Mayor's Role in the First Subway Run
  • The Beautiful Original City Hall Station
September
  • The 1920 Wall Street Bombing
  • Scars on the Morgan bank building
  • Terrorist attacks in New York
August
  • Affordable Health Care for New Yorkers
  • Abandoned Building on Valuable Greenwich Village Site
  • The Intersection of Waverly Place and Waverly Place​
July
  • New York's Worst Death Toll Until 9/11
  • The General Slocum Disaster
  • How Kleindeutschland Changed Forever
June
  • How New York City Got the Nickname "Gotham"
  • Washington Irving's Salmagundi
  • Batman's Gotham City and Superman's Metropolis
May
  • How New Yorkers Stared Down Bulldozers to Save Their Parks 
  • The Battle of Central Park
  • Jane Jacobs on What Makes a Great Neighborhood Park
April
  • How the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Came to Be
  • The Feud Within a Leading New York Family
  • The Famous Buildings That Replaced Astor Mansions
​March
  • How Ticker Tape Parades Began
  • What Happened When Ticker Tape No Longer Existed
  • Some Unusual Ticker Tape Parades in NYC
February
  • How New York looked with overhead electric wires  
  • The Great Blizzard of 1888
  • Record snowfalls in New York City
January
  • Ice Staking in Central Park in the Victorian Era
  • Donald Trump and the Central Park Ice Rink
  • Year-Round Ice Skating in New York​​

2016

December
  • How the Bull Statue Came to the Financial District
  • Christmas Innovations at Macy's
  • Gifts for Lovers of New York City​​
November
  • Evacuation Day, 1783
  • The Holiday Honoring Evacuation Day
  • Occupied New York City in the Revolutionary War Era 
October
  • A Haunted House on West 10th Street
  • The Ghost at the Morris-Jumel Mansion
  • The Witch on Bethesda Terrace
September
  • The Nation's First Labor Day Celebration
  • Whose Idea Was It --- McGuire or Maguire?
  • How Union Square Got Its Name
​August
  • Summertime Illnesses in New York
  • How Yellow Fever Led to Development of Greenwich Village
  • The Story of Typhoid Mary
July
  • New York City, July 1776
  • Statue of King George III
  • The Oldest Fence in New York
June
  • The Stonewall Rebellion and Birth of the Gay Rights Movement
  • Origin of the name Gay Street 
  • Famous residents of Gay Street
May
  • Jane Jacobs, a Unique Urban Activist
  • Jane's Walk, the Global Event Honoring Her
  • A New Ebook, My New York Stories
April
  • Great Hoaxes by New York City Newspapers
  • Origin of the "Penny Press"
  • Jane's Walk New York
March
  • New York's First Roman Catholic Cathedral
  • Why New York City Has Two St. Patrick's Cathedrals
  • The First St. Patrick's Day Parade in the World
February
  • George Washington's Inauguration
  • Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech
  • Theodore Roosevelt's Birthplace
January
  • Activism in New York City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., on Three Visits to New York
  • Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church

2015

December
  • How Times Square Got Its Name
  • Why the Ball Drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve
  • Why Many Squares in NYC Are Actually Triangles
November​
  • Why New York City Created the First Zoning Law in the Nation
  • How to Approximate the Age of a Skyscraper
  • Why So Much Valuable NYC Real Estate Has Parks Instead of Buildings
October
  • A Brief History of NYC Water Sources 
  • New York's Collect Pond
  • The Croton Aqueduct System
September
  • Real and Imposter Traces of Colonial New York
  • The Great Fire of 1853
  • The Miraculous Survival of St. Paul's Church Through Multiple Disasters
August
  • The 1930 Battle for Tallest Building in the World
  • What Was Once Hidden Inside the Chrysler Building
  • Why the Empire State Building Was Once Called the Empty State Building
July
  • ​Why New York's Wealthiest Citizens Began to Try Apartment Living
  • Features of Early Luxury Apartments
  • Carriage Houses a Century Ago and Today
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