NEW YORK — For its 150th anniversary, the American Museum of Natural History is celebrating its many historic moments, from its 1869 founding, to the 1902 discovery of the first T. rex skeleton, to the creation of the Teddy Roosevelt statue erected out front in 1940.
When Anthony Mancinelli became a barber nearly a century ago, Warren Harding was in the White House, a haircut cost 25 cents and leeches were still used to treat high blood pressure.
NEW YORK — The familiar words etched on the Statue of Liberty read, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
NEW YORK — The scene could have been straight out of one of the “Night at the Museum” movies: The public filtered out of the American Museum of Natural History at closing time, while Rob DeSalle headed deep into the museum’s anthropology wing.
NEW YORK — A series of recent manhole fires in the heart of Manhattan forced the evacuation of several theaters and was a stark reminder that the subway is not the only creaky infrastructure beneath the streets of New York City.
The Garden City News has a paid print circulation of 8,300 and a full-time newsroom of one: editor and publisher Meg Morgan Norris, who writes the editorials and much of the news.
The Garden City News has a paid print circulation of 8,300 and a full-time newsroom of one: editor and publisher Meg Morgan Norris, who writes the editorials and much of the news.
NEW YORK — There is an industrial stretch of 37th Street in Long Island City, Queens, just off Queens Boulevard where you can walk and suddenly be hit with the most incongruous of odors: the pungent, earthy smell of truffles.
All these concerts have been free, in keeping with an informal policy to avoid charging money for large outdoor performances in Central Park, New York’s great public space and the jewel of the public parks system.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — For the legion of rich and famous in New York City, the unofficial start of summer means migrating east by luxury vehicle to the Hamptons, that slice of exclusivity at the end of Long Island.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — For the legion of rich and famous in New York City, the unofficial start of summer means migrating east by luxury vehicle to the Hamptons, that slice of exclusivity at the end of Long Island.
New Jersey’s capital city once boasted of its outsized industrial prowess with the phrase “Trenton Makes, the World Takes,” but that activity has largely dried up, and what Trenton often makes now is headlines for violent crime.
TRENTON, N.J. — Nine people where injured Friday night by at least one gunman in a drive-by shooting in front of a bar in Trenton, New Jersey, city officials said.
