Have you noticed the names on the wall? I do not mean at the Vietnam Memorial or 9/11 but on firehouses, police stations, department stores and other notable buildings around the city. The names on fire stations and precincts commemorate those who lost their lives in the line of duty. However, in other buildings around … More The Names on the Wall
The East Village today has few remnants of its historic roots of the 19th and early 20th century as Kleindeutschland or “Little Germany.” Although there had been Germans settling in New York since colonial days it was not until the 1840s that there was a massive wave of Germans into the city. Beginning in … More The General Slocum Fire
I picked up A. Rogers Ekirch’s American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution from my pile of books to read and I am sorry that I had not read it earlier. As it happens I followed this up with Carol Berkin’s A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the … More Books: A Sovereign People and American Sanctuary
Bowery & Canal 