New York City's Municipal Archives has posted the first batch of some 10,000 pages of colonial manuscripts, along with early Dutch maps and illustrations.The newly digitized trove contains ...

COLONIAL NEW-YORK CITY; The Bold Yankee Boys Who Sailed aPrivateering. THEY ONCE RAISED A FATAL RIOT That Was in the Days When the Port Was Full of Rich Prizes Taken on the Spanish Main ...

By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest US city. Between 1870 and 1915, New York’s population tripled — skyrocketing from 1.5 million to 5 million residents.

(New York, NY)—On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, the New York City Fire Museum launched a new exhibition, Colonial Firefighting & the American Revolution, which presents the untold story of a group ...

The four excavated segments — measuring roughly eight-feet thick, and varying in length and height — were uncovered in December 2005, when the Museum of the City of New York‘s archaeological ...

With New York City’s first map in hand as you walk along with Manhattan’s original coastline, you will get to physically touch history as you spend time finding out how Bowling Green got its ...

Among the endangered records are hundreds of maps of post-colonial New York, created as early as the 1700s, rolled tightly into cardboard wrapping and stored in the city’s proverbial attic.

Illustration of the New York slave market. Corbis. New York City may have a reputation for being a socially progressive place to live, but during the 18th century, it was a major hub for the North ...