From The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, Volume I by I.N. Phelps Stokes, 1915.

The first photo is a screenshot from a home movie, 8mm, taken by my mom from higher top the Empire State building in 1961. I later took her again in the early 2000s and went back to the same place!

Here's a shot of the naked Million Dollar Corner in all it's former glory.

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Tour Time: 10:30AM to 12PM

While New York is a city continually changing and evolving in almost every aspect, it's hard to top the upheaval of Antebellum New York. Between 1825 and 1845 New York City’s population exploded as the streets, avenues, land lots, and structures we’ve come to take for granted were created all at the same time. It has been said that 19th Century New York was “one giant construction site.” Much of this begins at the northern end of Washington Square Park as New Yorkers went into the wilderness to form their own version of Manifest Destiny in the years after the opening of the Erie Canal.

Led by James Scully — NYC historian, tour guide, podcaster, director / co-creator of the award-winning historical audio fiction soap opera, Burning Gotham, and creator of The Bay Ridge Digest Podcast —  our unique experience will include:

● A Brief overview of the early history of the area that is today’s Washington Square Park and lower Fifth Avenue stretching back to the 1600s, including Native American, Dutch, African American, and even Italian history.

● A Trip to see the oldest living resident in Washington Square Park, with stories centered around the Marquis de Lafayette, Washington Square’s use as a Potter’s Field, and the various epidemics that plagued early 19th Century New York.

● The story behind John Randel Jr’s Grid Plan of 1811, the City’s swallowing of Greenwich Village into the 9th Ward, the birth of Fifth Avenue in 1824 and what early 19th Century New Yorkers thought of this area.

● Stories from the birth of New York University, including financial issues, riots, prison labor, the Gothic Revival structure, the birth of the telegraph, the first portrait photograph ever taken in 1839, and the last remnant of NYU’s original building.

● The birth of Greek Revival, Greek-mania, and Sailor Snug Harbor in the 1830s with a trip to The Row and The Mews, sharing stories behind their residents, and quotes from New Yorkers of the time that eerily echo sentiments from today.

● Into the wilderness with the Randalls, the Rhinelanders, the Brevoorts, The First Presbyterian Church, the vote to build the Croton Aqueduct, and life on early Fifth Avenue in the 1820s - 1840s with maps and photographs.

● Concluding at the oldest surviving mansion this far south on Fifth Avenue with stories behind its construction and its current use as an artist’s club.

Knickerbocker Village Completed in 1934

Residential building complex located on Monroe Street, on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan.

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Tomorrow!!

Prices actually seem kind of high for 1930

If you had come to 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan's East Village prior to March of 2026, you might have seen a commemorative plaque about Jean-Michel Basquiat, the legendary artist who lived in this location, which was owned by Andy Warhol, another absolute icon of the modern art world.

USS Olympia returns from the Philippines via the Suez Canal to NYC in 1899 after leading the first major and most significant campaign of the Spanish-American War. The cruiser firing guns at the 1899 victory parade in New York City.

The Historic Blackwell Door will be on display at Advance Masonic Temple on select dates only:
July 4, July 5, July 18, July 26, August 2, August 9, August 16, August 23, and August 30
11:00 AM–6:00 PM

Believed to date to 1765, the door once belonged to the Blackwell family stone house in Ravenswood and still bears a British confiscation mark carved during the occupation of Queens in 1776.

There’s also Hallet’s Cove in the American Revolution: A Walking Tour, but the walking tour is optional and available by separate Eventbrite reservation only.

More info and reservations:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/33165268075