Exploring the Lent-Riker-Smith Home

The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Boroughs of the Dead guide Marie Carter, who leads our “Haunting Histories and Legends of Astoria” tour. Marie is a resident of Queens and an avid explorer of the borough. Her next Astoria tour is August...

NYC Cemetery Project

Periodically, we like to run profiles to showcase the hard work of New Yorkers who are dedicated to the history and archaeology of this city. Mary French runs the NYC Cemetery Project, an incredible blog that actually has real writing, and information, and images...

Round Manhattan’s Rim

In 1933, journalist Helen Worden of the World-Telegram decided to take a jaunt. With her friend Ruth Steinway in tow, she circumnavigated the waterfront of Manhattan island, and wrote it all up in a pithy little number called Round Manhattan’s Rim. This Depression-era...