PBS

NEW PBS DOCUMENTARY SERIES TO EXPLORE HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY’S CENTRAL PARK

Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...
The New York Times

Charting the History of New York’s Middle Eastern Community

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...
The Nation

Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War is the third and final volume of the most ambitious—and probably the ...
City Journal

The Fading Lessons of New York’s Fiscal Crisis

On the afternoon of May 2, 1975, the heads of three major New York commercial banks sat down with Governor Hugh Carey at his midtown Manhattan office. The meeting was brief and the bankers got quickly ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply: Assessing the New York City Strategy

New York City between the 1840s and the 1960s developed the largest and, some would argue, the best urban water supply system in the world in terms of quality, reliability, and innovative management.
The Nation

The Man Behind the Radical Walking Tours of New York City

Asad Dandia sued the NYPD after it spied on his family and community. Now he uses people’s history to reclaim the streets from the systems that surveilled him. Asad Dandia. In winter 2012, Asad Dandia ...