OLD NEW YORK
The history of The Empire State
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Dance The Night Away
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Location: The Big Apple Year: Now Sanitation workers in New York City refer to maggots as “disco rice.”
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Yellow Cabs
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Location: Manhattan and Chicago Year: Early 1900s Ever wonder why New York taxis are all yellow? It's because John D. Hertz, an ...
The Dutch skyscraper
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Location: New York, New York Year: 1660s The New York City skyline is world famous for its skyscrapers, which have been the tall...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Paying The Beer Tax
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Location: New York City Year: 1931 Ah, Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment was easily the most violated law in American history. E...
Friday, October 24, 2014
"When it rains, it pours."
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Location: Wyoming County, New York Year: 1848 The Onondaga Salt Company opens its first salt mine in Wyoming County, New York, in ant...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Ithaca, New York, or: Sodom-By-The-Lake
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Location: Ithaca, New York Year: 1790 The City of Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, was named for Odysseus...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The blast-proof Buddhist
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Location: The Upper West Side of Manhattan Year: 1955 Shinran Shonen (1173-1263) was the founder of the True Pure Land School of Budd...
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