The New York Times

Charting the History of New York’s Middle Eastern Community

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...
Artnet

A Treasure Trove of New York Gallery History Is Now Online

A new project promising an in-depth record of the history of New York art gallery exhibitions is now live. The New York Gallery History Project has just launched its first installment: an online ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Remarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.
Smithsonian Magazine

The Precarious History of New York’s Iconic Chrysler Building

Architect William Van Alen’s plans for the building’s formidable steel helmet grew taller and more ambitious over time. NYPL On a mild October day in 1929, the architect William Van Alen watched from ...
insider.si.edu

Buried beneath the city an archaeological history of New York Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel Maclean

"Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Pottery shards dating to ...
The Conversation

A history of the dukes of York

Mark McKinty does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...