New York 
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/5/2020
East Village Fire Damages 128-Year-Old Church
Middle Collegiate Church was a beacon of inclusion and tolerance for its congregants and the surrounding community. The damaged building was 128 years old, but the congregation originated before the American Revolution.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/30/2020
Why New York’s Mob Mythology Endures
by Adam Gopnik
"Generally, in Mob stories, the cute bits are not real, and the real bits are not cute. Given that grim truth, there’s something to be said for just shutting your eyes and repeating the cute bits." Some new books on the Mafia unfortunately follow the pattern.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/12/2020
Cuomo Unveils Statue of Mother Cabrini
Governor Andrew Cuomo got the jump on Mayor Bill de Blasio to place a statue honoring the first American to be canonized. Cabrini's name was not on the city's first list of women to be honored with statues, angering many Italian American New Yorkers.
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SOURCE: Untapped New York
9/16/2020
It’s the 100th Anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing
Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
8/23/2020
Life Of Brooklyn Suffragette Shows Influence Black Women Had On The Historic Movement
Through her sister, historians are beginning to learn more about Sarah Jane Smith Garnet — a Suffragette whose role in the movement has been almost entirely overlooked.
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SOURCE: ProPublica
8/17/2020
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
In the 1950s, New York City created the Civilian Complaint Review Board to address police misconduct. Since then, police unions have fought to limit its power.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/14/2020
How the World’s Largest Garbage Dump Evolved Into a Green Oasis
Freshkills is possibly the least likely poster child for urban ecological restoration in the world, and it is radical not just for the way it works — by encouraging flora and fauna do as they please — but for its sheer size. It is almost unbelievable that New York City would set aside a parcel of land as big as Lower Manhattan south of 23rd Street — and just let it go to seed.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/12/2020
He’s Sharing the History of Black New York, One Tweet at a Time
Oluwanisola “Sola” Olosunde is an urban planning graduate student whose Twitter feed is a chronicle of the everyday life of Black New York. He helped bring to light a recent viral video of white Queens residents yelling racist abuse at young Black girls during a period of resistance to desegregation in the 1970s.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/21/2020
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
6/14/2020
As NYC Awakens, Navigating A Strange New Normal
“This is not the first time New York has been challenged. It won’t be the last,” says historian Kenneth T. Jackson.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/11/2020
A N.Y. Street Is Named for Robert E. Lee. Officials Want That Changed
“His name should be taken off everything in America, period,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news briefing.
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SOURCE: History.com
6/5/2020
How the Police Shooting of a Black Soldier Triggered the 1943 Harlem Riots
Scholars Nikki Jones, Michael Flamm, and Dominic Capeci describe what exactly unfolded during these riots, what motivated them, and what they represented.
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SOURCE: Lapham's Quarterly
6/8/2020
A Tour of the Plague Years in New York
by Mike Wallace and Edwin Burroughs
Two New York City historians revisit well- and lesser-known pandemics from the city's past.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/21/2020
Rhody McCoy, Key Figure in New York’s School Wars, Dies at 97
McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.
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SOURCE: CrimeReads
5/26/2020
How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever
by Paul Renfro
Concerns about the “safety” and “security” of specific children—particularly those who resemble Etan Patz—played a considerable role in New York’s extraordinary late twentieth-century transformation.
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SOURCE: City Journal
5/15/2020
Richard Gilder’s American Legacy
Howard Husock argues that the late Richard Gilder's work with the Central Park Conservancy showed the benefits of using private philanthropy to preserve public parks instead of government programs, and praises Gilder's support for the study of American history.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/11/2020
‘Last Train’: New York Subway Shutdown Because of Coronavirus is Another Historic First
In New York, nightly subway closures mean a tear in the fabric of the city.
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SOURCE: Untapped New York
5/6/2020
Learn About the Fashion History of NYC in New Documentary
“[The documentary] is about the history of fashion in NYC from sweatshops in LES to the heyday of the Garment District to independent designers across the five boroughs,” Ariel Viera said.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
4/8/2020
Political Broken Promises: Self-Serving Officials And Unrealistic Expectations In The History Of The NYC Subway
by Philip Mark Plotch
Beware of politicians who promise that they can upgrade and expand their transit systems and provide reliable service without asking you to pay more.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/5/2020
Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need
by Kim Phillips-Fein
Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook.
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