If you’re not yet watching the fabulous, fascinating, sometimes frivolous, and always fashion-forward The Gilded Age, please let this be your excuse to do so. Now in its third season streaming on HBO, the show features an incredible ensemble cast, and covers a lot of great real-life New York City […]
The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house still standing on Manhattan, the Morris-Jumel mansion has an illustrious history, from its earliest days as a country estate commanding the heights, to serving as General George Washington’s headquarters from mid-September to mid-October 1776. The mansion was confiscated by the Americans and transformed into a tavern after […]
We Were All in the Gravest Peril: The General Slocum Disaster
On June 15th, 1904, congregants of the St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, including many former members who loved the annual outing and used it as an excuse to return to the old neighborhood of Kleindeutschland, “Little Germany,” gathered on the pier at the end of East 3rd Street. Families and […]