Tag: New York City

A burglar broke into their house and the elder sister held the burglar up with a silver spoon. I thought this sort of thing only…

Blackwell Island, previously known as Hog’s Island, was originally an island owned a Robert Blackwell. New York City purchased the island from Blackwell and turned…

While the New York State Tenement House Act (1867) required tenement homes to have fire escapes, tragedies continued to happen. In the newspaper article below,…

If you think that people pamper their dogs now, you haven’t heard about the custom made shoes for dogs back in 1912. In a time…

Whoever said that the women of today were far more brazen and lawless than the women of a century ago, never heard of the Broderick…

While written in 1912, this newspaper article brings up some points that we still haven’t fully answered today. For example, should we look the other…

Have you ever wondered how the New York City’s subway was built or why they decided to build it? I certainly have each and every…

Tragic stories, such as the one below, triggers the imagination. We know what led to the situation, but how did the events play out inside…

By the 1920s, people interested in the world’s great mysteries and psychic sciences were creating machines and gadgets to try and understand psychic energies, ghosts,…

In the early 1900s, people were expected to work up to and sometimes over 24 hours. Men and women had to fight to lower the…