Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… as much history as the Newtown Creek In the 1600s the area was said to be a center for piracy home to some of the folks … the nearby neighborhoods of Long Island City and Greenpoint When Miguel Cavanzos who lived in Blissville for five years … an expert on all things Newtown Creekrelated is leading a walking tour of the cemetery in December The cemetery is a …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM
Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

… To many Newark NJ is the name in front of an airport a place for a Portuguese food crawl or the … are loaded up on Newark Walks a new app that maps out a 5 km 31 mile pedestrian tour around the historic … opened on the ground floor … Newark was once mansion central … You may not think of mansions as synonymous with …

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… Few New York City streets can genuinely be called mews but MacDougal Alley a culdesac … Alley has evolved into a mix of private residences and an art schoolthe New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and … of the time Isamu Noguchi after a voluntary stay in a Japanese internment camp in Arizona where he hoped to …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM