270-Year-Old Almshouse Discovered Under City Hall Park
250 years ago, the structure served "poor needy persons, idle wandering vagabonds, sturdy beggars, and parents of bastard children."
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250 years ago, the structure served "poor needy persons, idle wandering vagabonds, sturdy beggars, and parents of bastard children."
Still, residents seem to be siding with striking workers.
The neighborhood has the most rapes, murders, robberies, and felony assaults of anywhere in the city.
A designer has turned the interior of her apartment into a reflection of the city around it.
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Architecture critic Justin Davidson notes that the fountain in the newly renovated cultural complex has been on overdrive of late.
A 21st-century take on Saul Steinberg's famous 'New Yorker' cover.
"If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly."
The Manhattan borough president thinks the actress is maybe overreaching.
A dude busted for drinking vodka in the Greenpoint branch went nuts earlier this week.
But it may be a blessing in disguise.
"Electing to go ahead into this truly idiotic move is one of the great mysteries of the present moment."
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