(Pictured: Carnations laid in honor of the dead at the sidewalk of NYU's Brown Building. Photo by Leanna Renee Hieber)

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took the lives of 146 people, most of them women and girls. As a NYC tour guide of over 15yrs, I speak about this site with vehemence. Never forget the importance of modern labor laws and the lives lost before we gained these rights. Andrea Janes and I wrote about this site, and its importance in the capacity of residual haunting, in our book A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN. Our chapter on the fire, Industrial Monsters, is up on the Boroughs of the Dead blog: https://boroughsofthedead.com/industrial-monsters-ghosts-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory/

Please support union workers and legislation aimed at shoring up worker protections. Honor the dead.

#MapMondays 1930 plan to fill New York Harbor with landfill! The proposal by T. Kennard Thomson was originally published in 1911 in Popular Science and would have filled the entire East River with landfill in addition to creating new peninsulas off of Staten Island, Bayonne and Sandy Hook, totaling fifty square miles! With the East River gone, Thomson proposed connecting the Long Island Sound back to the harbor by digging a new channel from Flushing through Brooklyn. Thomson revised the plan in 1930 (seen above), naming the new landfill City of New Manhattan, half of which would be in the state of New Jersey, separated by the extension of Broadway which would be a grand boulevard over railroad tracks flowing into a tunnel to Staten Island. This grand boulevard would be four miles long and three levels high, with trains, automobiles, and airplane landings! Tunnels would also go from Sunset Park to Bayonne, Red Hook to Jersey City, and Cobble Hill to Jersey City. #redhook #jerseycity #cobblehill #manhattan #nychistory #urbanism #longislandcity #queensny #statenisland #bayonne #eastriver #popularmechanics #civilengineering #brooklyn #dumbo #brooklynheights #tribreca #nyc #nyharbor #hudsonriver #longislandsound #urbanplanning #lowermanhattan #fidi #nycurbanism (at Governors Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cia2xlcOJP4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On This Day in New York City History March 16, 1827: The Freedom Journal which was fhe first African American-owned and operated newspaper in the United States was founded by John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Eli Cornish. The newspaper covered such issues as education, health, jobs and social events for free blacks not only in NYC but throughout the Northeast. After a falling out between co-founders, the focus for the newspaper would center on the movement for the return of Blacks to Africa in the form of the new colony of Liberia. This practice established by the American Colonial Society started in 1820. Liberia would become the first African colony to become an independent nation in 1847. The paper would cease publication in 1829. #FreedomJournal #AfricanAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanStudies #BlackHistory #BlackStudies #BlackHistoryMatters #JohnBrowbRusswurm #SamuelEliCornish #NewspaperHistory #NewYorkHistory #NYHistory #NYCHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2dFnHur0k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

William Gedney's Street Portraits of People in the Crowd in Brooklyn, NYC, 1967

Gertrude Stein's own suite at the Renwick Hotel in New York

Step into a world of playful elegance at Gertrude Stein's stylish suite in the iconic Renwick Hotel - an artistic retreat like no other.

Delancey / Orchard. April, 1980. Step into the past - Delancey / Orchard in April 1980. Discover the charm of this famed English neighborhood and uncover the stories it holds from decades ago.

6.1.23 Lunchtime drawing: Imagining what Bowling Green would like like if the gilded leaf statue of King George III hadn’t been torn down in 1776 to be melted into musket balls for the American Revolution — and the crowns decorating this oldest fence in NYC hadn’t been loped off… (Engraving via the LOC)

🗽#ArtIsAWeapon Nice crowd here reminiscing about #NYCNightlife in the 90s! #trueyorker #truetothis #TraScapades Reposted @momentnyc Come experience a slice of 1990s #NYCnightlife. This event will feature photographs taken by Alice Arnold during the early years of Giant Step; a DJ set by DJ Smash + guests; and a panel discussion with Paper Magazine founder, David Hershkovits, Giant Step co-founder and CEO, Maurice Bernstein, Head of Production at Kenzo Digital, Erica Lee Alice Arnold is a documentary media maker and educator who creates, edits, designs and photographs projects that explore the urban environment and visual culture — from street art to advertising and from sidewalks to electric signs. Her films are in the collections of university libraries throughout the United States and have screened at MoMA and other festivals. She is a NYFA Photography Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in film and an Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York. She recently published "Goldie Timeless" (Cafe Royal Books), a small photo book about a drum‘n'bass event in 1995. 6:00pm Doors 6:30pm Panel Discussion Discussing '90s NYC Giant Step parties in the context of NYC nightlife history. David Hershkovits (founder of Paper Magazine), facilitates a discussion with Maurice Bernstein (Giant Step co-founder and CEO), Erica Lee (former Director of Events at Giant Step), and DJ Smash (original Giant Step DJ) 8pm Live exhibit  Photos by Alice Arnold, Giant Step archival audio mixes, and context 8:30-11:00 After-Party  DJ set by DJ Smash w/live guest performers #nyclubhistory #giantstep #momentnyc #nyc1990s #clubhistoryseries #djsmash #nychistory #dancemusic #nightclubbing #sobs #groovecollective #photography #giantstep #makeartnyc #papermag (at SOB's) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbUCCSMC3l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The El Dorado building on Central Park west. It’s not just a city landmark, it’s also very photogenic 🤩 From Belvedere Castle take the walkways going west,and discover some paths that are quiet and not full of people, with gorgeous views of the lake and the towers! . . . #newyork #newyorkcity #newyorklife #newyorkbuildings #newyorkarchitecture #nycbuildings #nycarchitecture #newyorklovers #newyorkhistory #nychistory #newyorkstateofmind #newyork_instagram #newyorkcityphotography #nycphotography #nycphotographer #nycblogger #newyorkers #newyorktrip #nycviews #centralpark #centralparknyc #centralparkmoments (at Central Park, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSlA8iP3vv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

NYC! Boroughs of the Dead is BACK! THIS THURS, 7pm! We're kicking the 2023 Season off with a JOINTLY-LED, TAG-TEAM EVENT of awesome guides. Join yours truly and my co-author extraordinaire, BotD founder herself, Andrea Janes, for GHOSTLY WOMEN OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, the tour that became the backbone of our Bram Stoker Award Nominated book, A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN. Only a few tickets left via this link: https://boroughsofthedead.com/ghostly-women-of-greenwich-village/ - We'll ALSO have books on hand to sign for you! Let's celebrate Women's History Month with some incredible facts and eerie figures!

I had no idea this was here! #nyc #nychistory #landmark #mybackyard https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUbT2jvwRp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 @missconeyisland 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆!! 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕! 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 @bambithemermaid 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚! 𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒗 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 💋♥️💋 #missconeyisland #coneyisland #nychistory #love #pearlsdailyburlesque #thepearlsdailyshow #missconeyisland2019 (at Coney Island USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci5nWZ8Lz1P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hip-Hop, Clubs and Pop Culture of Bronx, NYC in the 1980s by Shopie Bramly

On This Day in New York City History February 20, 1895: Former slave, abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass (February 1818 - February 20, 1895) passes away at the age of 77 or 78.

Douglass escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad arriving in NYC in 1838. Douglass would figure heavily in the history of NYC's abolition movement leading up to and during the Civil War. Douglass gave a series of speeches at Cooper Union including The Proclamation and the Negro Army which was given on February 3, 1863.

Post Civil War, Douglass continued to work for the freedom of not only blacks but of women in the areas of voting rights and would lend his support to Ida B. Wells' anti-lynching campaign.

Douglass would pass away at either the age of 77 or 78 in Washington D.C.

#FrederickDouglass #UndergroundRailroad #BlackHistory #BlackStudies #BlackHistoryMatters #AfricanAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanStudies #CivilRightsHistory #NewYorkHistory #NYHistory #NYCHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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History whispers through the trees of Central Park. ✨ #NYCHistory #Timeless

know more about central park: bit.ly/3PHDQm1