NEW YORK — For its 150th anniversary, the American Museum of Natural History is celebrating its many historic moments, from its 1869 founding, to the 1902 discovery of the first T. rex skeleton, to the creation of the Teddy Roosevelt statue erected out front in 1940.
When Anthony Mancinelli became a barber nearly a century ago, Warren Harding was in the White House, a haircut cost 25 cents and leeches were still used to treat high blood pressure.
All these concerts have been free, in keeping with an informal policy to avoid charging money for large outdoor performances in Central Park, New York’s great public space and the jewel of the public parks system.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — For the legion of rich and famous in New York City, the unofficial start of summer means migrating east by luxury vehicle to the Hamptons, that slice of exclusivity at the end of Long Island.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — For the legion of rich and famous in New York City, the unofficial start of summer means migrating east by luxury vehicle to the Hamptons, that slice of exclusivity at the end of Long Island.
New Jersey’s capital city once boasted of its outsized industrial prowess with the phrase “Trenton Makes, the World Takes,” but that activity has largely dried up, and what Trenton often makes now is headlines for violent crime.
TRENTON, N.J. — Nine people where injured Friday night by at least one gunman in a drive-by shooting in front of a bar in Trenton, New Jersey, city officials said.
NEW YORK — It’s possible that John (Chickie) Donohue, 77, has told his “greatest beer run ever” story in every bar in the Inwood section of Manhattan over the years.
NEW YORK — The familiar words etched on the Statue of Liberty read, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
NEW YORK — The first issue of The City Record, on June 24, 1873, listed a procurement notice for a steamboat engine for the New York City Department of Charities and Corrections.
NEW YORK — The first issue of The City Record, on June 24, 1873, listed a procurement notice for a steamboat engine for the New York City Department of Charities and Corrections.
NEW YORK — The scene could have been straight out of one of the “Night at the Museum” movies: The public filtered out of the American Museum of Natural History at closing time, while Rob DeSalle headed deep into the museum’s anthropology wing.
NEW YORK — Ask a New Yorker their opinion regarding trains, and you will likely get an earful about the sputtering subway system or the less-than-reliable commuter rail lines that stretch into the suburbs.
In 1975, Chuck Wepner, a journeyman fighter known as the Bayonne Bleeder, was convinced he had snatched the world heavyweight title from Muhammad Ali after knocking the champ to the canvas in the ninth round of a matchup in Cleveland that just about everyone figured would be a cakewalk for Ali.
As cyclists and joggers plied the winding park drives, a nonstop stream of tourists approached the hard-to-miss horseman. They sought directions or a photograph of him and Trooper, his stately horse.
