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September
- Bringing Electricity to NYC Homes and Businesses
- The Battle Between Edison and Westinghouse/Tesla
- Uses of Alternating and Direct Current
- The Narrowest House in Manhattan
- Edna St. Vincent Millay's Home
- How the Cherry Lane Theatre Came to Be
- 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
- Robert Moses and the Henry Hudson Parkway
- How Moses Pieced Together Financing for Pet Projects
- Hudson Rising Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society
- New York's Secret Garden
- Conservatory Garden in Central Park
- Our 2019 Jane's Walk
- The Oldest Library in New York City
- Creation of the New York Public Library System
- Fun Facts About the 42nd Street Library
- Immigration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Where Immigrants Arrived Before Ellis Island
- Major U. S. Immigration Laws
- The Strange Thing on Roofs on NYC Buildings
- How New Yorkers Get Their Water
- Unusual Uses for Water Towers
- 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
- Helping the Masses Stay Clean and Cool
- What Happened to Public Bathhouses
- Open Fire Hydrants
- How New York Street Vendors Created Ice Cream Treats
- The Invention of Air Conditioning
- Custom Tour Ideas
- The "Mayor of Central Park"
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Reservoir
- Scuba Divers in the Central Park Reservoir
- Tenements of New York
- Laws to Improve Tenement Life
- The Tenement Museum
- Sacred Spaces in New York
- Creating an Eruv for Orthodox Jews
- Spiritual Central Park
- Funding the Statue of Liberty
- A Special Partnership Between France and the U.S.
- The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus
- 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
- The Dramatic Demonstration of the Elevator Safety Brake
- The World's First Passenger Elevator
- What Cooper Union and the Haughwout Buildings Have in Common
- New York's First Subway
- The Mayor's Role in the First Subway Run
- The Beautiful Original City Hall Station
- The 1920 Wall Street Bombing
- Scars on the Morgan bank building
- Terrorist attacks in New York
- Affordable Health Care for New Yorkers
- Abandoned Building on Valuable Greenwich Village Site
- The Intersection of Waverly Place and Waverly Place
- New York's Worst Death Toll Until 9/11
- The General Slocum Disaster
- How Kleindeutschland Changed Forever
- How New York City Got the Nickname "Gotham"
- Washington Irving's Salmagundi
- Batman's Gotham City and Superman's Metropolis
- How New Yorkers Stared Down Bulldozers to Save Their Parks
- The Battle of Central Park
- Jane Jacobs on What Makes a Great Neighborhood Park
- How the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Came to Be
- The Feud Within a Leading New York Family
- The Famous Buildings That Replaced Astor Mansions
- How Ticker Tape Parades Began
- What Happened When Ticker Tape No Longer Existed
- Some Unusual Ticker Tape Parades in NYC
- How New York looked with overhead electric wires
- The Great Blizzard of 1888
- Record snowfalls in New York City
- 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
- Evacuation Day, 1783
- The Holiday Honoring Evacuation Day
- Occupied New York City in the Revolutionary War Era
- A Haunted House on West 10th Street
- The Ghost at the Morris-Jumel Mansion
- The Witch on Bethesda Terrace
- The Nation's First Labor Day Celebration
- Whose Idea Was It --- McGuire or Maguire?
- How Union Square Got Its Name
- Summertime Illnesses in New York
- How Yellow Fever Led to Development of Greenwich Village
- The Story of Typhoid Mary
- New York City, July 1776
- Statue of King George III
- The Oldest Fence in New York
- The Stonewall Rebellion and Birth of the Gay Rights Movement
- Origin of the name Gay Street
- Famous residents of Gay Street
- Jane Jacobs, a Unique Urban Activist
- Jane's Walk, the Global Event Honoring Her
- A New Ebook, My New York Stories
- Great Hoaxes by New York City Newspapers
- Origin of the "Penny Press"
- Jane's Walk New York
- 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
- George Washington's Inauguration
- Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech
- Theodore Roosevelt's Birthplace
- 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
- 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
- A Brief History of NYC Water Sources
- New York's Collect Pond
- The Croton Aqueduct System
- Real and Imposter Traces of Colonial New York
- The Great Fire of 1853
- The Miraculous Survival of St. Paul's Church Through Multiple Disasters
- 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
- Why New York's Wealthiest Citizens Began to Try Apartment Living
- Features of Early Luxury Apartments
- Carriage Houses a Century Ago and Today
