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Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts

An invitation to the opulent 19th century Bachelors’ Ball, held every year on Valentine’s Day
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Peek into the diary of a Manhattan schoolboy growing up in the booming city of the 1870s
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This prefabricated steel diner on Pearl Street is one of the last of its kind in Manhattan
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The sacred stone box of a church beneath a finance company’s 1970s Midtown skyscraper
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Tracing the life and legacy of an ironworker through a coal chute cover in Brooklyn Heights
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How long has this faded 7Up sign been hanging on a West Side corner tenement?
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The army of unemployed men who lined up to do the work of removing snow from city streets
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A midcentury snow scene reveals the magic and wonder of Madison Square in winter
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The hucksters, housewives, and pageant of humanity once on display at Paddy’s Market in Hell’s Kitchen
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The “entirely feasible” 1911 plan to extend Manhattan four miles into New York Harbor
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One of Manhattan’s last wood houses has stood on this Yorkville street since before the Civil War
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This dollhouse-like holdout built in 1899 is a lonely and curious Bronx anachronism
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How New Yorkers paid for a subway ride when the system first opened in 1904
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What a panoramic winter landscape from the 1860s says about Central Park’s early years
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The story behind a haunting 1974 photo of a bar and cocktail lounge that once existed in the West Village
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Chronicling the feasting and frolicking on New Year’s Day over two centuries in New York City
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The huddles of humanity on an anonymous Manhattan cross street during a wintry day in 1899
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This spooky holdout built in 1896 was once a “distinctly idiosyncratic” family home in a more rural Bronx
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What happened to the canal that gave Canal Street its name?
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This tucked-away holdout house in East Midtown was built 3 years afer the end of the Civil War
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