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image credit The New York City Municipal Archives released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city...

Did it really take until 1938 for the first truly desegregated nightclub to open in New York? It’s hard to believe, but though black performers entertained whites at Depression-era venues suc…

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History never looked so good. The New York City Department of Records recently unveiled a massive online archive of over 800,000 scanned pictures. Here are but a few.

Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a social reformer and photojournalist. He is best known for his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, which brought public attention to New York's squalid housing, sweatshops, bars, and alleys. The City Museum holds the complete collection of images that Riis used in his writing and lecturing career, including photographs he made, commissioned, or acquired. These depict men, women, and children of many nationalities at home, work, and leisure. This collection contains vintage prints, glass-plate negatives, and lantern slides, as well as a set of recently produced prints from all of Riis's original negatives. The Mulberry Bend. Portrait of three girls who served as inspectors in the first Board of Election at the Beach Street Industrial School. An old woman with the plank she sleeps on at the Eldridge Street Station women's lodging room. "I Scrubs," Little Katie from the W. 52nd Street Industrial School (since moved to W. 53rd Street). Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement. Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street. Men in a crowded in an "Black and Tan" dive bar. In sleeping quarters - Rivington Street Dump. A man atop a make-shift bed that consists of a plank across two barrels. Ludlow Street Hebrew making ready for Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar -- bread on his table. James M'Bride, one of the City's Pensioners, Father of the notorious Blanche Douglass. Three children curled up on a metal grate in a below-grade areaway. Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry. In a Sweat Shop. Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement. A woman holding a child, and men sitting in a rear yard of a Jersey Street tenement. Minding the Baby. Daytime foot traffic on Hester Street. Three Iroquois women working at a table at 511 Broome Street. Police Station Lodging Rooms, Church Street Station. Playground established in Poverty Gap in the "Alley Gang" preserves. A rear-lot house on Bleecker Street as seen from an adjacent excavation site. A woman with an infant seated at a table with a boy using writing tools. Laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island. An ash barrel on the sidewalk. Little Susie at her work. Children and a woman sit on an inclined cellar door. Newsboys cleaning their faces in a lodging house washroom. Young students salute the American flag at Mott Street Industrial School. Night school in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House - run by The Children's Aid Society. Under the dump at West 47th Street. Women sleeping on plank beds and the floor. A hallway at the condemned Essex Market School filled with students playing. Police Station Lodging Room 5. Midnight in the Leonard Street Station. Old Barney in Cat Alley. Cat Alley, when it was being torn down. Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground. (via Museum of the City of New York)

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New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark

Jacob Riis was an incredibly influential pioneer of photojournalism. All the photographers who snap shots of brutal realities today are carrying on his legacy.

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Today we'd like for you to take a look at an Instagram account by the name of "The History Atlas". This page collects interesting and unseen historic images and shares them with its whopping 81K followers on the platform.

The focus of this research is the reappraisal of the modern hotel through its use of domesticity, and as a political project and political institution in its own right. Thus, domesticity is understood as a socio-spatial condition through which particular subjectivities and formal protocols of hospitality can be shaped. In this case, a constituency of politicians, advisors and board members, in short, the wider constituency associated with the workings of today’s political administration.

From Brooklyn in 1900 to the Manhattan block parties of the Seventies, a series of fascinating black and white images reveals how New York residents endured heat waves and sleepless nights.

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An ancient, mossy bridge is the perfect complement to any rural or river scene. These old and mysterious arched bridges are mankind's way of traversing landscapes that are otherwise decidedly wild.

Historical photos are the only window we have to the past and we can learn so much from them. Here are 35 rare historical pictures you must see.

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You've most likely heard of, or even visited New York's High Line, the elevated linear park recycled from the city's former central railroad. But it's time to get to know the "Low Line"... A dark and abandoned one-acre underground space with loose wires and dampness all around– what could there pos

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Some of the world's most beautiful buildings have risen up, only to be destroyed or demolished just a few years or decades later. Here we remember some these great structures for what they once were.

Our concrete jungle is a city built on water. If one searches carefully, one can hear sounds of secret streams churning beneath manholes and see traces of them in street names that recall a watery …

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I haven't done one of these for a while and I think it's about time we got the series going again. Not much to it, just me having a bit of fun curating the sassiest old school pictures I can find on net or from my inbox of pictures you've kindly sent in of your sassy ancestors. Oh and please keep se

During the days of Dutch rule, freedmen from Africa were allowed to own farmland in New Amsterdam.

People shared 'old photos in real life' that show how time changes everything in a subreddit and here are 35 of the most interesting photos.

Charles M. Schwab's Riverside House was, according to The New York Times "The most pretentious house" in New York -- photo The Library of Congress When the doors of the gargantuan Charles M. Schwab mansion named Riverside House were opened in 1947 for the sale of the interior fittings, among the 100 viewers was S. Archer Gibson. The elderly man was not there to buy bronze hardware or stained glass windows. He was reminiscing. In the soaring two-story chapel area of the French Renaissance chateau Gibson touched the cabinet of the grand pipe organ he once played as Charles Schwab’s private organist. The impressive instrument had been enlarged by the millionaire at Gibson’s request in 1904 at a cost of $21,500 and again in 1911 for $23,457.50 more. The days when the fabulously wealthy installed pipe organs into their homes and hired private organists – Gibson earned $10,000 per year – were over. And the days of Schwab's extraordinary mansion were over as well. Steel tycoon Charles M. Schwab had no intentions to built just any house in 1901. His would be the largest and most expensive. And he intended that it would vastly outshine the mansions rising on Fifth Avenue along Central Park. Schwab had started out in the steel business as a teenage laborer in a Carnegie steel mill and was by now one of the wealthiest men in the country; the head of United States Steel. Among the Fifth Avenue houses, only Andrew Carnegie's mansion rising at 91st Street and 5th Avenue had a vast garden and fenced yard. The free-standing home was unique in its luxurious setting. Along Riverside Drive, however, millionaires were opting for free-standing residences surrounded by lawns. This is what Schwab had in mind when he spent $865,000 for the full block on Riverside Drive in 1901, extending to West End Avenue, between 73rd and 74th Street. It was the most ever spent on a building lot to date. The magnate commissioned architect Maurice Hebert to design a French Renaissance chateau that would impress. Hebert did exactly that. The 75-room limestone mansion was a marriage of elements from three French chateaux: Blois, Azay-le-Rideau and Chenonceau. Surrounded by lush lawns and formal gardens it diminished the homes of Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. Andrew Carnegie, in seeing the massive edifice rising is said to have commented, “Have you seen that place of Charlie’s? It makes mine look like a shack.” The tycoon spent $3 million on the structure and several million more for the furnishings and antiques. It was a four-story palace with a 166-foot tower that offered panoramic views. To supply the vast amount of stone to build it, a quarry was opened in Peekskill, New York. River House sits on its park-like grounds shortly after construction -- photo NYPL Collection According to Robert Hessen in his Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab, “Schwab had a passion for owning the biggest and the best – homes, or automobiles, or private railroad cars.” Riverside House would exemplify that passion. The sheer size of the mansion staggered the editors of Harper’s Weekly who admitted that it “may strike the average observer as a burdensome possession, oppressive to maintain, and likely to be embarrassing to heirs, but if Mr. Schwab can stand it, we can.” The rear of the Schwab mansion in winter -- photo nycago.com The New York Times, on the other hand, cooed. “In architectural design, richness of decoration, and completeness of details this structure is calculated to surpass in luxury and magnificence any city home in America, if not the entire world.” More than 100 artists, designers, modelers, engineers and architects were engaged in the construction. Hebert personally supervised the work of artisans at the William Baumgarten & Co. which creating reproduction tapestries for the house–several of which were exhibited at the St. Louis World’s Fair before being installed in the house. Ceilings and walls were decorated by artists like Albert Mantelet, Arthur Thomas and Jose Villegas. Rooms were executed in various periods; the dining room in Louis XIV, the library in Henri II (a copy of the library in Fontainblue), the parlor in Louis XVI (copied from the Petite Trianon), the main hall in Francis I, and so on. “Nothing will enter into the construction of the new dwelling,” reported The New York Times, “that has not been made specially to order…So-called stock material, no matter how good it may be, will be ignored.” Interior pillars were made of elaborately carved marble, paneling was South American mahogany, the chapel, where the custom-made organ was installed, doubled as a music room and was large enough to seat a full orchestra. A natatorium in the basement featured a glazed-brick pool 20 by 30 feet under an arched glass roof. There was a bowling alley and 50-foot gymnasium on this level as well. The art gallery was filled with $1.5 million in artworks. There were six elevators, a self-contained power plant, and, to Charles Schwab’s great satisfaction, the 1906 version of air conditioning. Years later he would brag, “When I built it, it was the most modern house in the United States…this was thirty years ago, yet it had an air-cooling system in it.” Schwab's custom-made Aeolian pipe organ in the chapel -- photo nycago.com The master bedroom was 20 feet square and the adjoining bath had a five-foot square shower stall. There were a four-car garage, a receiving lodge for incoming goods, and a service tunnel beneath the sculptured gardens. The grand staircase included an additional pipe organ. -- many thanks to Jim Lewis for this photo from an Aeolian Organ advertisement. While other millionaires entered their mansions through expensive and impressive wooden double doors, Schwab went a step further. “Of particular note will be the massive bronze doors on the west side of the house at the main entrance,” said The New York Times. “While these doors will not be as large as those on the Capitol at Washington, each of them will weigh from a ton to a ton and a half. There will also be another set of bronze doors on the north side of the building leading to Seventy-fourth Street.” The rear of Riverside House as it appeared from West End Avenue, a full block from the front entrance -- photo NYPL Collection Schwab’s wife, Eurana, had protested against moving so far northward, fearing she would never see her Fifth Avenue friends again. After a period, despite her Fifth Avenue friends visiting regularly, Rana Schwab stopped accepting social invitations--even those from the White House–out of embarrassment of her physical condition. The food-loving Rana became severely overweight. She stayed in Riverside House, catered to by her 20 servants--chief among them George Stone, the butler. Nevertheless, in 1917 as World War I raged in Europe, she dedicated two rooms of the first floor for the use of Red Cross volunteers who knitted sweaters, socks and bandages for soldiers in France. The Schwab's 1916 Christmas Card featured the staircase -- many thanks to Jim Lewis for this great image. In 1921, S. Archer Gibson was recorded playing the Schwab organ, creating what would be among the earliest organ recordings. Later, in 1932, Schwab agreed to allow the National Broadcasting Company to broadcast a series of Wednesday night organ concerts played by Gibson. The couple lived in luxurious comfort in Riverside House until Schwab’s fortunes were wiped out by the Great Depression. The massive mansion changed almost overnight from a palace to a hulking white elephant. Unable to pay the taxes Schwab tried futilely to sell the property for $4 million. He moved into a small apartment on Park Avenue in 1939 where he died nearly penniless later that year. Tycoon Charles M. Schwab lost his entire fortune nearly overnight -- photo NYPL Collection The mansion sat ghostly and vacant for years. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia rejected the idea of using the house as the mayoral mansion, feeling it was far too grandiose. It was the last hope for the hulking and sumptuous Schwab house. After sitting empty for a decade, the land was purchased as the site of an apartment building. The sale of the interior fittings which organist S. Archer Gibson attended was the last time visitors would stare in awe at the painted ceilings, the carved grand staircase and the marble columns. The elaborate mahogany doors and carved marble pilasters were salvaged from Riverside House and are installed in Brooklyn's Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral --photo nycago.com The wrecking company informed the press a few days later that the great pipe organ in the chapel was too large to remove. It would be smashed with the rest of the house. At the eleventh hour, however, Eric Sexton of New Canaan, Connecticut purchased the instrument, disassembled it and installed part of it in his home in Camden, Maine. In place of Schwab's French Renaissance chateau sits The Schwab House -- photo cityrealty.com In place of Charles M. Schwab’s magnificent French chateau now stands an uninspired red brick building with a name dripping with irony: “The Schwab House.”

Kenmare Street in New York City is named in homage to Irish American politician Tim Sullivan's mother, who hailed from Kenmare in Co Kerry.