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City Artifacts Monday, November 20, 2017

The Miracle at Macy’s — the Musical!

Here’s Love, a musical retelling of Miracle on 34th Street, recreated the spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on stage. Read about the production, and check out some of the original costume designs from our theater collection.

City Artifacts Monday, April 24, 2017

Contemplating and Commemorating Rapid Transit in New York City

Happy Birthday, NYC Subway! The subway system opened on October 27, 1904. Go back to the beginnings to learn how the underground railway came to be.

Landmarks Thursday, February 16, 2017

The New Colossus

How the poem that gave us the iconic verse, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” made the Statue of Liberty a symbol of immigration and refuge.

Entrance to Second Avenue Subway at 72nd Street, December 31st, 2016. Photo by the author for the Museum of the City of New York

Landmarks Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Ringing in the New Year with the Second Avenue Subway

This past Saturday night, New Year’s Eve, the Museum was honored to serve as part of the host committee of the inaugural Second Avenue Subway ride. Read on to explore the history of past subway expansions.

Arnie Charnick. Luncheonette Life. 1997. Museum of the City of New York. 97.188.23

Landmarks Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Restaurants of Yore

It’s harder and harder for an independent restaurant to survive in New York City. Here we look back at restaurants that enjoyed a successful run in our city.

Landmarks Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Basement Bathhouse, Rooftop Farm, Symphonies and Scandals in Between

What do Stravinsky, the Black Sox, Bette Midler, and a swinger’s club have in common? At one point they were all inside New York City’s Ansonia Hotel.

City Artifacts Monday, November 14, 2016

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

In this guest post, Lisa Keller explores how a 1911 tragedy galvanized support for labor reform and worker's rights in New York City.

Landmarks Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Alexander Hamilton’s “Sweet Project”

Towards the end of his career, Alexander Hamilton wrote to his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, about a “sweet project” he was planning, with which she would be pleased.

vedere Castle, Looking North, ca. 1878. Augustus Hepp

Landmarks Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Augustus Hepp’s Central Park in Blue

In the 1870s Augustus Hepp was commissioned to photograph the newly built Central Park. The Museum retains a collection of 40 large format cyanotypes he made.

Jan Staller, Fire alarm box at 11th Avenue, 1978, 2015.5.13

Landmarks Thursday, November 12, 2015

From Expressway to Contemplative Oasis: The Elevated West Side Highway

When racing in a cab down West Street trying to make it in time for a meeting, how many people think back just a few decades when an elevated expressway ran down the western edge of the city from the Henry Hudson Expressway to Battery Park?

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