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MANHATTAN-NEW YORK COUNTY

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                The Great White Way, Broadway,... Digital ID: 836271. New York Public Library                   

   
Sub-Section: Historical Facts On Manhattan
Article Name: History Told in Tablets
Article Name: British Military Buttons of the War of Independence Found On Manhattan Island
Article Name: Historical Explorations in New York City
Article Name: Mementos of the Olden Time  1869  Part I
Article Name: Mementos of the Olden Time  1869  Part II
Article Name: Particulars of the Riot 1665
Article Name: City Affairs 1665 to 1672
Article Name: Old Doorways in Greenwich Village
Article Name: Burial Place For Negroes, Slave and Free                 Posted 9/25/06
Article Name: The Indians of Manhattan Island          Posted 10/14/06.
Article Name: The Fields
Article Name: The Farm Map: Lower Part of The City in Olden Time Pre: 1852
Article Name: Interesting Extracts In Relation To New Netherlands Pre: 1852
Article Name: New York Fifty-Two Years Ago 1807
Article Name: General Grant in New York Pre: 1887                          Posted 4/9/07
Article Name: The First Negro Plot in the City of New York                Posted 2/17/08
Web Link: New York In The Year 1680
Web Link: Moving Uptown: Nineteenth Century Views of Manhattan
Web Link: The Day They Almost Sawed Off Manhattan
Web Link: Forgotten New York
Web Link: Manhattan History: The Astors Grew Up With The Island
Web Link: Rockefeller Center Quietly Closes Theater-The Guild
Web Link: The Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City - Restoration of the Historic site in New York
Web Link: Selling The Lower East Side
Web Link: 100 Years of New York City
Web Link: Beginning of Water Supply in New York City

Sub-Section: Just Rambling About New York City Life
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #1 (June) 1898               Posted 8/29/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #2 (June) 1898               Posted 8/29/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #3 (June) 1898               Posted 8/29/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem and The Bronx #4 ( July) 1898                Posted 8/29/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #5 (July) 1898                 Posted 8/29/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #6 (July) 1898                 Posted 9/16/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #7 (August) 1898            Posted 9/16/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem And The Bronx #8 (August) 1898            Posted 9/16/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem and the Bronx #9 (August) 1898              Posted 10/5/07    
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem and the Bronx #10 (September) 1898      Posted 10/5/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem and the Bronx #11 1898                           Posted 11/18/07
Article Name:  Just Rambling About Harlem and the Bronx #12 1898                          Posted 11/18/07
Article Name: Just Rambling About Harlem and the Bronx #13 1898                           Posted 11/18/07
Article Name: Phases of City Life 1891                   Posted 8/5/07
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #1         (January)            Posted 8/5/07.
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #2         (January)            Posted 8/5/07
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #3          (January)           Posted 8/5/07
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #4          (January)           Posted 8/5/07
Article Name: Life in New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #5          (February)         Posted 8/10/07
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #6          (February)         Posted 10/5/07
Article Name: Life In New York City: Random Gossip 1885 #7           (February)         Posted 11/18/07


Sub-Section: Libraries
Article Name: New York Historical Society's Library                              Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: The Astor Library                                                             Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: Library of the General Theological Seminary 1893          Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: The Mercantile Library                                                      Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: Public Libraries of New York City                                    Posted 6/23/08


Sub-Section: Manhattan Memories
Article Name: A Girl's Life in New York, Ninety Years Ago, Reminiscences of Catalina Adams
Article Name: Recollections of the Old Neighborhood-1940's by Miriam Medina
Article Name: Los Recuerdos del Viejo Vecindario : El Barrio 1940s Por Miriam Medina (For the benefit of the Spanish speaking people who live in East Harlem)
Article Name: Dr. Haswell's Diary Reflecting Incidents on the Life of His Day 1810-1824
Article Name: A Memory of Old Harlem                        Posted 10/1/06
Article Name: Old Schoolgirls Young For A Day: 1908
Article Name: Reverie Of A Solitaire or, A Pisgah's View of The Bay of New York & It's Environs: Half A Century Hence 1823 by John Pintard
Article Name: Changes in New York: Reminiscences of Down-Town Streets 1853                Posted 4/27/09
Web Link: Diary Of A Little Girl In Old New York 1849-1850
Web Link: Diary Of A Little Girl In Old New York 1851
Web Link: Personal Memories of Washington Heights
Web Link: Old Merchants of New York City 1863  A Book of 38 Chapters
Web Link: A Great Merchants Recollections of Old New York, 1818-1880

Sub-Section: Military
Article Name: New York In The Great World War of 1917
Article Name: Camp Life of the Soldiers Of New York During The Revolution
Article Name: New York's Welcome to the War Commissions
Article Name: A Brave Woman's Fame: Tablet to Mrs. Margaret Corbin                                     Posted 2/12/09
Web Link: New York City Before, During, and After The Civil War-What Changed and Why?
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Sub-Section: Miscellaneous Information
Article Name: Boundaries of Wards-1865
Article Name: The Golden Age of Booze 1923
Article Name: Manners and Customs Among the Dutch In Early New York City      Posted 10/1/06
Article Name: Chronological Statistics 1853
Article Name: Presidential Papers Regarding The Custom House In New York
Article Name: Marconi's Welcome To New York
Article Name: Automobile Avenue Pre: 1934                               Posted 4/12/07
Article Name: Sunday In NYC 1869                                       Posted 12/23/07
Article Name: The Fort At The Battery Pre: 1869 Part I         Posted 2/14/08
Article Name: The Fort At The Battery Pre: 1869 Part II         Posted 2/14/08
Article Name: Blackwell's Island 1869                                   Posted 8/23/08
Web Link: Give Lighthouse for Titanic's Dead-Seamen's Church Institute
Web Link: 1940s: 100 Tons of Junk Found in Brownstone (Manhattan)
Web Link: New York City-The Streets In The Morning-early 1900s
Web Link: New York City Ebb Tide-early 1900s
Web Link: New York City By Night-early 1900s
Web Link: New York City-Docks and Ships-1900's
Web Link: The Great Balloon Hoax: A Hoax Created by Edgar Allan Poe in 1844.
Web Link: First Events In Old New York
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Web Link: My New York-Analysis of the Social History of New York, New York.  
Web Link: City Life in The Early 1900's
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Web Link: Christian Herter's decoration of the William H. Vanderbilt house in New York City
Web Link: Life In The Shadows, the Underside of New York City
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Web Link: How Great Grandmother Took Her Outing in 1810
Web Link: New York City Signs 14th to 42nd street
Web Link: Christmas In the City and Country
Web Link: New York City-The Approach From The Sea:
Web Link: New York City's oldest co-op celebrates 120th anniversary - Profile of the
Week: The Gramercy at 34 Gramercy Park


Sub-Section: Neighborhoods In Manhattan-Miscellaneous
Article Name: Five Points Neighborhood Part I
Article Name: Five Points Neighborhood Part II
Article Name: Jone's Wood: Part I
Article Name: Jone's Wood: Part II
Article Name: Jone's Wood: Part III
Article Name: Greenwich Village: The Neighborhood 1907                                   Posted 3/13/08
Web Link: On The East Side
Web Link: Hell's Kitchen History
Web Link: NYC's Songlines
Web Link: Five Points Viewer's Guide
Web Link: Little Italy
Web Link: The Alley: A Back Street History of new York's Communities
Web Link: On The Bowery
Web Link: The Slope of Murray Hill
Web Link: History of Soho
Web Link: The Alleys of Greenwich Village
Web Link: Greenwich Village: Restaurants, and the Magic Doors
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Sub-Section: Neighborhoods In Manhattan-Harlem
Article Name: A Memory of Old Harlem                                           Posted 10/1/06
Article Name: When Harlem Was A Village Part I                            Posted 7/17/08
Article Name: When Harlem Was A Village Part II                           Posted 7/17/08
Article Name: The First Settlers of New Harlem Part I                    Posted 9/5/08
Article Name: The First Settlers of New Harlem Part II                    Posted 9/5/08
Article Name: The First Settlers of New Harlem Part III                   Posted 9/5/08
Article Name: Uptown Shopping Center, Harlem 1900 Part I           Posted 11/08/08
Article Name: Uptown Shopping Center, Harlem 1900 Part II          Posted 11/08/08
Article Name: Uptown Shopping Center, Harlem 1900 Part III (more to come)                  Posted 11/08/08
Article Name: The Harlem Rag Market At 115th Street & First Ave. Pre: 1934                      Posted 4/12/07
Article Name: 300,000 In Rain See Big Harlem Parade 1916                Posted 11/21/08
Article Name: In the New Hebrew Quarter of Harlem 1904 Part I                              Posted 9/24/08
Article Name: In the New Hebrew Quarter of Harlem 1904 Part II                              Posted 9/24/08
Article Name: Bomb Exploded In Crowded Street During Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1907         Posted 11/21/08
Article Name: Fire Mars A Festival During Italian Festival St. Rocco 1903                                                  Posted 11/22/08
Article Name: Little Italy's Fete Day 1900                                                                                                     Posted 11/22/08
Article Name: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Tid-Bits                                                                                        Posted 11/23/08
Article Name "Brief Sketch of Businesses In Harlem, New York Pre: 1891 Part I                        Posted 3/15/09
Article Name "Brief Sketch of Businesses In Harlem, New York Pre: 1891 Part II                        Posted 3/15/09
Article Name "Brief Sketch of Businesses In Harlem, New York Pre: 1891 Part III                       Posted 3/15;09
Article Name "Brief Sketch of Businesses In Harlem, New York Pre: 1891 Part IV (Final Part)    Posted 3/15/09
Blog Mimi Speaks Blog: Italian Harlem
Blog Mimi Speaks Blog: Spanish Harlem
Blog Mimi Speaks Blog: Harlem: Historic Heart of Black New York
Special Mention: Recollections of the Old Neighborhood by Miriam Medina
Web Link: Vestiges of Harlem's Jewish Past
Web Link: When Harlem Was Jewish
Web Link: Italian Harlem: America's Largest and Most Italian Little Italy
Web Link: East Harlem Italian Feast , Giglio Feast
Web Link: Italian East Harlem
Web Link: All about Jewish Harlem Part I
Web Link: All About Jewish Harlem Part II
Web Link: Harlem Groups
Web Link: My Harlem


Sub-Section: Neighborhoods in Manhattan: Washington Heights and Inwood
Web Link: Audubon Terrace: An Uptown Pocket With Historic Roots
Web Link: Inwood: Away From Manhattan Wiothout Leaving
Web Link: A Virtual Tour of Fort Tryon Park, the Cloisters, and Washington Heights
Special Mention: The following articles mentioned below were written  by James Renner; Historian of Washington Heights & Inwood Online.
 
Web Link: Inwood Street Names
Web Link: Marble Hill Street Names
Web Link: Johnson Ironwood Factory
Web Link: Native American Life in Washington Heights and Inwood
Web Link: Military Life in Northern Manhattan
Web Link: History of Washington Heights
Web Link: Audubon Ballroom
Web Link: Battle of Fort Washington
Web Link: Loew's 175th Theater
Web Link: Church of Our Lady of Esperanza
Web Link: Church of the Intercession
Web Link: Ferries of Northern Manhattan
Web Link: Fort Washington Collegiate Church
Web Link: Historic Taverns of Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill

 
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