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Six on NY History: 100 Years After New York’s Deadliest Subway Crash; memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried; 720,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos Show Where New Yorkers Lived In The 1940s; NY Post Hides Sharpton/Joel Klein Relationship; End of Spofford, Beginning of La Peninsula; former crime corner turned into an eclectic community center

100 Years After New York’s Deadliest Subway Crash

100 Years After New York’s Deadliest Subway Crash

100 Years After New York’s Deadliest Subway Crash An estimated 100 people died in the Malbone Street Brooklyn Rapid Transit disaster. Here’s how the tragedy chang...

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Rivers Cosmogram

Rivers Cosmogram A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

720,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos Show Where New Yorkers Lived In The 1940s;

"The latest photo dump brings their 1940s tax photos online; tax photographs were taken by the City’s property tax office (or rather, by freelancers which they paid via funding from the Depression-era Works Progress Administration) as part of their assessment process. All in all, they show "every house and building in the five boroughs" from the decade, according to their press rep.

"This comprehensive collection shows where New Yorkers lived, worked, went to school, worshiped, shopped, dined, and socialized. They have unique value not only for the buildings they depict, but for what is incidental to the picture—the cars, trucks, taxis, buses, horse-drawn wagons, movie marquees, billboards, street lamps and signs—as well as the people—on stoops, on the sidewalks and looking out windows at the busy streetscape. In short, an extraordinary panorama of life in prewar New York City."

The search system is a little bit tricky [at best!], but you'll be able to find your building if it was standing in the 1940s. Head to nycma.lunaimaging.com/, and follow the instructions there (you'll need to click on which borough you're searching in on the menu on the left)."

720,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos Show Where New Yorkers Lived In The 1940s

720,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos Show Where New Yorkers Lived In ... See what your apartment building used to look like!

End of Spofford, Beginning of La Peninsula

End of Spofford, Beginning of La Peninsula - This Is The Bronx

End of Spofford, Beginning of La Peninsula - This Is The Bronx According to News12 the Bronx and other media, the first shovel was put in the ground... Read More

Leonie Haimson Exposes How NY Post Hides Sharpton/Joel Klein Relationship

Leonie Haimson Exposes How NY Post Hides Sharpton/Joel Klein Relationship

Leonie Haimson Exposes How NY Post Hides Sharpton/Joel Klein Relationship Ed Notes defends public education and promotes democratic teacher unionism with a focus on the UFT.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

La Plaza Cultural

La Plaza Cultural This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.